Nextgen Enterprises And Institutions

CSIR and ICASA paper on dynamic spectrum management wins big

CSIR research into dynamic spectrum and future internet networks continues to garner international recognition; this after a paper co-written by the CSIR and the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) won Best Paper at this year’s IST-Africa Week in Namibia. In 2015, the CSI...

A new tool for detecting harmful algal blooms before it’s too late

A harmful Algal blooms (HABS) detection tool , developed by the CSIR, has recently gone live. This is the first Decision Support tool on the Oceans and Coast Information Management System (OCIMS) to be made available to users. This initiative forms part of Government’s Operation Phakisa Oceans Ec...

CHPC receives honours in 2016 Supercomputing conference

Salt Lake City, UT — November 16, 2016 — The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of South Africa has been recognised in the annual HPCwire Readers and Editors Choice Awards, presented at the 2016 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (S...

CSIR and BITRI to collaborate on dynamic spectrum access research

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Botswana Institute for Technology Research and Innovation (BITRI) have signed an agreement which will see the two entities working together on dynamic spectrum access research. Spectrum refers to the airwaves over which all wireless co...

CSIR's Centre for High Performance Computing unveils the fastest computer in Africa

The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has unveiled the fastest computer on the continent, a petaflops (PFLOPs) machine. This is a super computer with processing speed capable of a thousand-trillion floating point operations p...

Vaal Dam on Facebook and Twitter

The Department of Water Affairs has joined forces with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to make the Vaal Dam the first dam in South Africa to use internet social media to disseminate information via facebook and twitter. Following information on the Vaal Dam is one of the...

CSIR Meraka Institute Receives Prestigious HP Catalyst Award to Foster Innovative STEM Education Collaborations Globally

PRETORIA, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA, June 27, 2011 – CSIR Meraka Institute today announced it has been awarded a grant to participate in the HP Catalyst Initiative , a global social innovation program designed to develop more effective approaches to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) ed...

Fraunhofer and CSIR sign MOU for cooperation in ICT

The Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angew andten Forschung e. V., Germany, and the CSIR Meraka Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at strategic cooperation to develop and market technical and other solutions. The MOU was s...

CSIR researchers develop world-first fingerprint recognition technique

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Information Security researchers have developed a structural fingerprint classifier that is able to correctly classify a fingerprint with only partial information. The researchers also introduced novel fingerprint features – collectively r...