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Catherine Gater
Chief Administrative Officer / Dissemination Manager

Recent articles by this author:

  • Protein power at CAPRI 2013 May 1, 2013 - 8:56am
    Catherine Gater reports from the 5th CAPRI Evaluation Meeting in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The event focused on assessing and improving the performance of docking methods in predicting the 3D structure of protein complexes.
  • Multiscale modeling at the peta- and exascale October 31, 2012 - 9:12am
    Catherine Gater reports from the e-Challenges 2012 conference in Lisbon on the difficulties of multiscale modeling and asks where a future with peta- and exascale computing might take us.
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  • Building a new bridge between XSEDE and PRACE August 8, 2012 - 4:37am
    At the XSEDE’12 conference in mid-July, John Towns, principal investigator for XSEDE discussed the challenges and successes of the US high-performance computing network's first year. XSEDE is building bridges between universities, users, and...
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  • The higgs, the history, and the grid July 11, 2012 - 6:01am
    Physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider have identified a new particle that is consistent with the Higgs boson. Confidence levels are as high as 5.0 sigma. This means the probability of the background alone fluctuating up by this amount or more...
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  • Cloud computing at the cutting edge of research in Europe May 23, 2012 - 4:52am
    A new report on cloud computing considers the current, fast-moving reality of cloud research today, and identifies related areas where Europe could become among the world's leaders.
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  • Where astronomy meets data December 14, 2011 - 10:21am
    Brian Schmidt, awarded the 2011 Physics Nobel Prize, dicusses the role of e-science in astronomy and talks about his new project SkyMapper, which grew from the ashes of the Australian Mt. Stromlo telescope, used by Schmidt to discover that the Universe...
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  • Getting every researcher digital September 28, 2011 - 9:49am
    The next European framework funding program, which begins 2014, was introduced at the EGI Technical Forum in Lyon last week, and will set aside 80 Billion Euros for research and innovation.
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  • Extreme science July 27, 2011 - 10:38am
    The hot topic of conversation at the TeraGrid11 conference in Salt Lake City in Utah last week was the new era of XSEDE (pronounced ‘exceed’) - Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment.
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