iSGTW 01 August 2007

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Issue 35: iSGTW 01 August 2007

Feature - SimCity, social engineering and 60 million “people”

Decisions, decisions. What might your future hold?
Image © Electronic Arts Inc. All rights reserved.

A geographer by training, Mark Birkin has been using grid computing for more than four years to run real-life versions of computer game SimCity.

His latest project gathers a host of actual data from 60 million residents of the United Kingdom, integrates it into an anonymous but accurate model of the entire UK population, and then projects that information into the future.

Feature - AFRICA@home

@home in Africa: African scientists plug into the global computer
What could African universities achieve with the help of hundreds of volunteer computers?

35 scientists from 18 African countries participate in a world-first event.

Technology - A mega metascheduler

GridWay: interoperability without the headache
What looks and feels like your Local Resource Management system, but lets you submit jobs to multiple heterogeneous grids?

“Submit and forget” using GridWay.

Link of the week

Open Science Grid: a collaborative approach
This new paper covers much of everything you ever wanted to know about Open Science Grid, an alliance of researchers working to develop a uniform, useable and shared cyberinfrastructure for scientific research.