It's also National Science and Engineering Week from 11 to 20 March, with about 3, 500 events running all over the UK to celebrate and showcase science, engineering and technology and its importance in our lives.

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Sun itself hosts Network.com, a pay-per-use online service offering mathematical and engineering applications launched last March and hosted on what the company calls the Sun Grid.

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Scheduled engineering work for 15 and 16 March has been cancelled but work on 17 and 18 March will go ahead.

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That said, do bear in mind that according to the mark along the bottom of this part, we're apparently looking at an "EVT1" (Engineering Verification Test) piece from March 3rd 2011 (making it about three months older than the white N94 back covers that made the rounds last week, assuming they're legit).

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But chemicals, coke, refined petroleum and nuclear fuel exports dropped 6.7% between January and March, with textiles, fur and leather down 5.7% and engineering and allied industries dropping by 2.8%.

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In March Vij hired another veteran chip designer, Ravikrishna Cherukuri, to lead MIPS' engineering efforts and to build a three-year road map for new products.

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