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Issue 32: iSGTW 11 July 2007

 Feature - To bee or not to bee? Bee society and the human condition

What do the habits of honey bees say about our own social tendencies?

The humble honey bee: pollinator, producer of honey, and potential key to the secrets of social interaction.

Why can some bees be queen? How can a nurse bee suddenly transform into a forager, just when foragers are needed most? And how can these furry flying insects cast light on our own human behaviors?

The answers lie in the interactions of genes in the honey bee genome. And Saurabh Sinha is using grid computing to seek these answers out.

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Opinion - Grid business, good business

 Grid: goldmine for entrepreneurs?
What will happen in the business world if distributed computing really does become as available as electricity?

Alex Efimov introduces the grid goldmine.

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Feature - Earth science

 More than just computing power: earth science on EGEE
Monique Petitdidier, coordinator of the Earth Science contingent of the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE community, says the benefits of grids go beyond raw computing power.  

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Acronym of the week

/SE4SEE
SE4SEE is the quirky bunch of letters behind Search Engine for South-East Europe, a grid-enabled, personalized, on-demand, country-specific, category-based search engine.

What more could you look for?

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Image of the week

Close the cellular gates

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Feature - BiG Grid’s big idea

Research - Inflated performance

Profile - People behind EGI: Tiziana Ferrari

Link of the week - News from the CCS

Image of the Week - iSGTW goes to Amsterdam

 Announcements

Deadline extended to 12 Sept  for abstracts, CGW10, Krakow, Poland

DEISA Training Courses, 14 - 16 Sept at EPCC, Edinburgh, UK

CERN Open Lab Workshop, 22-23 Sept, Geneva, Switzerland

Registration open, AGU Fall 2010 Meeting, San Francisco, USA

Jobs in distributed computing

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September 2010

 

6-8, IASTED in Botswana

6-9, PRACE Training Week

6-10, GridKa School 2010

13-15, CaBIG

13-16, UK All Hands Meeting

14-16, DEISA Training Course

14-17, EGI Technical Forum

20-24, Cluster 2010

21-23, Cybera Summit 2010

22-23, CERN Open Lab

23, DECIDE

27-29, ICT 2010

30, ICRI

 

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