iSGTW 05 March 2008

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Issue 64: iSGTW 05 March 2008

Introducing TRIUMF: Canada’s Tier-1 on the worldwide grid

When the Large Hadron Collider starts up at CERN in 2008, the world will be waiting to receive the data it produces.

In Canada, researchers will be looking to TRIUMF, Canada’s particle and nuclear physics national laboratory and host to one of eleven Tier-1 centers, forming an integral part of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

Resources - Engagement

Getting started with grid computing: engage with OSG
Your application could use some extra grunt, but you’re not sure if it’s worth the effort of joining a computing grid?

Discover the Open Science Grid Engagement team, and find out how to move forward.

Opinion - Technology adoption

Visions and failures: eBooks, smart furniture, grid computing
Learning from others’ mistakes is a great way to avoid reinventing the wheel.

The team from the Near Future Laboratory share some insights from the world of ubicomp.

Link of the week

Statistics from the 3rd EGEE User Forum
Last month’s EGEE User Forum was the third in the annual series, attracting more than 300 attendees to 100-plus presentations, 19 demos and 36 posters.