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11 May 2011

The humanities, as lonely as a cloud

Distributed computing is only useful for the sciences, when there are large amounts of data or large amounts of computational power is required - right?

Think again. The humanities are overwhelmed with data as well, according to Sheila Anderson from King's College London, and also need to use grids to advance their field.

Adrian Giordani
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Reversing climate change with geoengineering

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What do the Portuguese elections, computer science papers and Facebook have in common?

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Four middleware providers now work as one

European Middleware Initiative (EMI)'s Kebnekaise is launching this week, unifying the four major platforms ARC, gLite, UNICORE and dCache and making it much easier for everyone to use the grid.

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