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7 December 2011

Following the 'red brick road' to data management

For the last 40 years, the way that large-scale services, such as global banks, and scientific experiments, such as the LHC at CERN, have been managing their data has been reminiscent of Lyman Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:there's only one tried-and-tested path, a 'yellow brick road', and it's relational databases. But over the last couple of years, some new, non-relational database models have emerged and may represent the next step in the evolution of data management.

Adrian Giordani
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Q&A - Dan Fraser on HTPC

What is high throughput parallel computing, and what does it take to make a grid HTPC-ready? Read on to find out!

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Fixing an analog link in a digital chain

Researchers have made the grid easier to use  for the Polish grid community by digitizing the process of obtaining X.509 certificates.

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Special issue of Royal Society journal on e-science

A special issue of the British journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A is dedicated to e-science and is free to access until 31 December 2011.

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