iSGTW 05 December 2007

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Issue 53: iSGTW 05 December 2007

Results from the SC07 Challenges: Analytics, Bandwidth, Cluster and Storage

Was this system among the winning entries? Find out...
Image courtesy of Indiana University

Every year competitors in the Supercomputing Challenges thrash it out in a match of fastest, cleverest and best.

The winners of November’s SC07 Challenges are no different.

Find out who walked away with blue ribbons...

Feature - Leadup to the LHC

Open Science Grid crunches through CMS simulations
In the last 15 months Open Science Grid resources have simulated 126 million CMS events, consuming about 5.5 million CPU hours.

Ajit Mohapatra runs through what has been achieved as part of this massive international effort.

Feature - Earthsystem science

The world’s climate data from a one-stop-shop
Grid computing is offering earthsystem scientists their most dynamic look yet at the interactions between biosphere, economy and climate.

Hannelore Hämmerle talks to researcher Kerstin Ronneberger about future directions for this work.

Link of the week

Sharkrunners
Your ship is virtual, but the sharks are real. Real-world data gathered from a network of sensors offers gamers the chance to track actual great whites.