iSGTW 19 March 2008

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Issue 66: iSGTW 19 March 2008

EnVision: from data to discoveries

Creating interactive visualizations has never been easier, thanks to EnVision.

Developed by the team at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, EnVision is web-based visualization software that semi-automates data importation.

Even better, it runs remotely, using TeraGrid resources to tackle large-scale data sets.

Feature - UK anniversary

The UK National Grid Service: celebrating 100 operation meetings
Whether it’s bloodflow through the brain, celestial objects, molecular permeability or ionic channels, the NGS is coordinating the compute resources to power UK research.

Opinion - Kurzweil’s Law

Distributed computing and the Singularity
Chris K. Haley argues that distributed computing is playing a role in reaching the Singularity—a point in the future where exponential progress will progress exponentially.

Link of the week

Defibrillation of the heart
What happens to the heart under the influence of electric shock? Defibrillation may be well used in hospitals, but the mechanisms behind it are still not fully understood.