iSGTW 18 June 2008

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Issue 79: iSGTW 18 June 2008

Feature - Tackling HIV via the grid

The United Kingdom’s National Grid Service (NGS) played a key role in helping scientists simulate the efficacy of an HIV drug in blocking a key protein used by the virus. The experiment by Peter Coveney, Ileana Stoica and Kashif Sadiq from the Department of Chemistry at University College London, performed a sequence of simulation steps across the UK’s NGS and America’s TeraGrid.

Feature - Optical Networking

OptIputer: the key to next-generation e-research

At the TeraGrid '08 Conference, UC San Diego’s Larry Smarr urged university campuses to remove network bottlenecks to supercomputer users.

Feature - HealthGrid 2008

The U.S. embraces HealthGrid

The University of Chicago hosted HealthGrid 2008 in early June at its downtown Gleacher Center, the first non-European venue for the conference. HealthGrid.US organized the meeting, signaling its readiness to collaborate fully with its European colleagues and begin the process of defining a roadmap.

Link of the week

W3C eGovernment forum

W3C launched a new forum for governments, citizens, researchers, and other stakeholders to investigate how best to use Web technology for good governance and citizen participation.

Image of the week

Matchmaking on the grid

The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), an Open Science Grid partner, created this visualization to help grid engineers and programmers understand how jobs of varying types and sizes flow into the grid infrastructure of the OSG.