MYREN-X capable of tranforming country's higher education: Najib

KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN-X) high-speed cyber infrastructure is capable of transforming the country's higher education and subsequently fulfill the national aspiration to churn out Nobel prize winners, said Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak.

The Prime Minister said the transformation would enable learning to be carried out anywhere and anytime in efforts to produce competitive human resources that meet the needs of the labour market.

Besides producing Nobel prize winners, the MYREN-X cyber infrastructure with a speed of 100 gigabits per second (gbps) can further drive the research sector including collaborative networking with researchers worldwide via the Frontier of Knowledge, he said when launching MYREN-X at the University of Malaya, here.

MYREN-X, an extension of MYREN which was launched on March 28 2005, is a computation and storage infrastructure to meet the needs of sustainable learning and research from higher institutions of learning in the country.

The Prime Minister said MYREN previously was insufficient to accommodate research and educational activities at levels such as the universities placed among the top 50 in the world and on par with cyber infrastructure such as the ones available in the developed nations.

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MYREN-X capable of tranforming country's higher education: Najib

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