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Why virtualisation? Simple, in order to meet the demand of new user communities with diverse requirements, EGI needs to improve the flexibility and efficiency of the infrastructure and empower virtual research communities with direct control on the serv ...

Feed Item - 4 July 2011

Unfortunately, driving a car it’s not only “fun and freedom”. It’s also one of the top causes of death in the world. So, today we bring some of those sad numbers and facts, with a help from Auto Insurance UK , Motorcycle Insurance , Drive Steady ...

Feed Item - 28 July 2011

Can the human brain devise a system capable of understanding itself? That's been something brain simulation researchers have been working toward for nearly a decade. With recent advances in supercomputing capabilities and modeling techniques, the questi ...

Feed Item - 10 July 2011

When I wrote about hiking Denali , I did not know what to expect from the 49th State.Having spent the last week in Alaska with my family and experienced the terrain, flora and fauna, I can now describe Alaska in all its grandeur.We began our trip in ...

Feed Item - 7 July 2011

Another week, another apology for having very little new to say.Our excuse is that we have all been busy preparing for a meeting of NGS Collaborators (today, 6 July), a workshop on Moonshot, Grid and High Performance Computing (on Thursday) and ...

Feed Item - 6 July 2011

An anonymous reader writes "Robot essay graders could be the answer to grade inflation. New software being tested turns over the task of grading to computers — this article has an interactive demo of the software. One professor says the computer is far ...

Feed Item - 7 August 2011

hydrofix writes "A thin band of antiprotons enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time. The find, described in Astrophysical Journal Letters [arXiv] (Note: abstract free, full text paywalled), confirms theoretical work that predicted the E ...

Feed Item - 7 August 2011

Ransak writes "It looks as if SETI has met its short term funding goal to restart the Allen Telescope Array. Is crowdsourcing the long term future of pure research projects?" Read more of this story at Slashdot. ...

Feed Item - 7 August 2011

isgtw: Latest issue of iSGTW out now! http://t.co/cx1Z0yQ #music #flu #Sun #exaflop #win ...

Feed Item - 20 July 2011

isgtw: RT @egi_inspire: Nurturing a research community online? How to build a better portal from Jeff Sale of UCSD at Teragrid11 http://t.co/84 ... ...

Feed Item - 20 July 2011