iSGTW 22 August 2007

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Issue 38: iSGTW 22 August 2007

Feature - LOOKING to sea: grids reveal our deepest secrets

Our oceans cover 70 percent of Earth’s surface and are 99 percent of its living space.

And these oceans are changing, warming up.

What effect will this have? What is happening down there and how will it influence us?

John Orcutt, a marine seismologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is using a grid of ocean sensors, ships, satellites and more to reveal our deepest sea secrets.

Technology - Distributed data mining

Weka4WS: distributed data mining using web services
The weka is a flightless brown bird about the size of a chicken. It’s also a data mining workbench, and it’s been extended to support remote grid execution.

Domenico Talia introduces the Weka4WS toolkit.

Feature - Making digital history

Many millions of manuscripts
From who’s citing who in 21st century biotechnology to who’s influencing who in 19th century theatre, grid computing is continuing to attract all kinds of applications.

Steve Koppes runs through two Teraport applications mixing history, literature and science.

Acronym of the week

CHEETAH

Circuit-switched High-speed End-to-End Transport Architecture: now there’s a concept in need of an acryonym!

CHEETAH recently celebrated a new addition to its high-speed network family, running a 10 gigabit ethernet circuit from Raleigh to Washington D.C. in the U.S.

Image of the week

Dirty laundry: what really goes on at grid summer schools