iSGTW 12 December 2007

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Issue 54: iSGTW 12 December 2007

Montage a rising star in grid-enabled sky mosaics

Grid-enabled Montage software is stitching the skies into science-grade mosaics with astronomical potential.
Image courtesy of Montage

Astronomy application Montage is wowing astronomers with its science-grade sky mosaics.

Montage can not only reproject and stitch images, it can also suggest images of interest and rectify their background radiation, all using the added power of computing grids.

And now there is a Montage-powered on-request image mosaic service...

Opinion - Parallelism

The rise of parallelism (and other computing challenges)
Parallelism has become an invaluable feather in the bow of peak performance computing, yet its advent introduces new questions that must be answered.

Didier El Baz shares his thoughts on parallelism.

Resources - Education

Get on the grid with OSG Education
Online grid schools, high school grid projects, intensive grid workshops and more...

Want to get your research up and running on a grid? Open Science Grid has a team of people eager to help.

Link of the week

Rosetta@home vid cracks 20,000 YouTube views
Short, simple and a tireless ambassador, this YouTube offering from Rosetta@home neatly explains the challenges of protein folding while underlining the philosophy of distributed computing. Better yet, the Web 2.0 generation can’t get enough.