The digital story behind the mask

Capturing culture in a digital form can lead to impressive demands for storage and processing. And grid technology has a role to play in providing those resources. For instance, a 10 minute recording of the movements of a Malay dancer performing the classical Mak Yong dance, using motion capture equipment attached to the dancer’s body, can take over a week to render into a virtual 3D image of the dancer. Once this is done, though, every detail of the dance movement is preserved for posterity.

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New organization shakes up earthquake consortium

The cyberinfrastructure of a consortium dedicated to the study of earthquakes and tsunamis is about to get a makeover, thanks to new leadership and funding.

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Project develops new standards for sharing between grids

The software that governs individual grids has not always been capable of interacting well. The Grid Authorization Interoperability Project has created a new standard that could change that.

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