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30 May 2012

Distributing the Square Kilometre Array

Last Friday, the Square Kilometre Array collaboration announced their decision to pursue a dual site experiment, with part of the array located in western Australia, and the other portion in southern Africa. Read on to find out more about their plans for computing!

Miriam Boon
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Quenching Belgrade's thirst

Researchers harness the power of grid computing and high-performance computing systems to improve Belgrade's water systems.

Adrian Giordani
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Visualizing with VisIVO

A collaboration between Italy and the United Kingdom brings astrophysics visualizations to the grid and beyond.

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The European Grid Infrastructure breathes life into ancient Greek music
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Physics software used to fight cancer

Medical researchers are using a physics software application called Fluka to predict how ions interact in a patient’s body when undergoing cancer treatment.

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