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With a May deadline, the G8 Heads of Research Councils (G8 HORCs) have started the first multilateral call for proposals which addresses exascale computing, the fastest supercomputers of the next generation inviting researchers from the G8 nations can jointly initiate research projects and obtain the necessary funding within the scope of a new funding initiative. Researchers from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA are eligible to apply, under the leadership of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)

Scotland's largest cross-sectoral technology event. The day showcase, hosted by Scottish Enterprise, will equip you with technical expertise, inspiration and an opportunity for you to access innovative products and technologies aimed at providing practical solutions to your real business challenges.

The first Science Festival in the Outer Hebrides, to take place in March has received £5,000 funding from the Scottish Government's Office of the Chief Scientific Adviser. The grant was awarded through Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) to ESTEEM (Engineering, Science, Technology, Employability, Enterprise, Mathematics), a local organisation based in Stornoway who are organising the festival.

The research vessel Meteor embarks on a first expedition into the tropical Atlantic in early February, in search for trace metals (cadmium, copper, iron) dissolved in seawater, whose precise origin and distribution in the world's ocean, in particular in the deep sea, are not well known, but without which life in the oceans would not be possible.

A Silicon Valley start-up Counsyl is selling a test that it says can tell couples whether they are at risk of having children with a range of inherited diseases, including cystic fibrosis, Tay-Sachs, spinal muscular atrophy, sickle cell disease, Pompe and more than 100 others by alerting parents-to-be who have the carrier genes.

Qinetiq's January news release is an award for the VAAC Harrier team and a commendation in the Honours List for those on Tornado Urgent Operational Requirements support. But ominously the company has also issued a second profits warning as trade unions anticipate further job cuts at the Malvern research site.

Three new Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT's) in mathematical sciences have been awarded funding of £13m at the universities of Lancaster, Cambridge and Warwick. The new centres are the first to be dedicated to mathematical sciences and are being created in addition to the existing 44 CDT’s which were set up in 2008 with £250 million of EPSRC funding.

The Item Club forecasting group, which uses the Treasury's own computer model of the economy, described the performance of the country's financial sector as 'dismal'. Independent, Edinburgh based economic consultant Dougie Adams advisor to the Ernst & Young Scottish ITEM Club said: 'Scotland's financial services sector has been the biggest under-performer since the onset of the recession because of the major fallout from the banking crisis.'

Scottish telecoms company Abica has commenced real-life, real time trials of a new superfast data product in partnership with BT, which could hopefully improve the way Scotland does business. It's first involvement has been in the transformation of the Halfway Exchange in Glasgow, which serves business intensive areas such as Hillington and Cardonald. The FTTC product went live at Halfway late November.

Researchers from the Fraunhofer-Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials IFAM in Bremen developed a new, non-destructive process. They use the Rapid Manufacturing method: a machine produces a component based on a 3D CAD model, building it layer-by-layer directly from the computer. The laser melts off the areas of each metal powder layer that are intended to be solid. Next, the building platform is lowered and the process restarts until the component is completed. Fraunhofer scientists can control this process in a manner that allows the RFID to be installed and completely encased by the material.

Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has announced new investment totalling £22m to further advance the development of ‘composite’ materials. Composites (or hybrids) are increasingly used for their lightweight, super strength properties in aeroplane wings and racing cars. He used a visit to Williams Formula One, Oxfordshire, to launch the investment and publish the Government’s new Composite Strategy.

Gaberlunzie has for a decade fretted that the melting northern ice with its dilution of the saline North sea content would in turn disastrously weaken the Gulf Stream system with its helpful impact on Scotland's West coast, and ensuring a milder climate for Europe. Now it seems that the Agulhas Current may be coming to the rescue although months of HPC simulation is still needed to prove the hypothesis.

IBM news, like Gartner's Quadrants tends to flow in from many angles. But there is indeed a common focus. Take Edinburgh-based Barrachd which has gained certification in IBM’s Dynamic Infrastructure Specialty Programme in the area of Business Resilience.Simultaneously Kaiserslautern-based Netbiscuits GmbH a leading B2B software service for the creation and operation of mobile websites, has its client Paris-based Ogilvy, one of the world's largest marketing and communications networks, using Netbiscuits award winning mobile publishing platform to set up the IBM Smarter Cities mobile site.

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