Content about Cloud computing

The Human Brain project made headlines earlier this year as one of two EU flagship projects that won 1 billion euros' worth of funding over the next decade. Nages Sieslack interviews project leader Henry Markram ahead of his keynote speech at this year's ISC'13 event in Leipzig, Germany.

Zenodo is an online repository, developed and hosted at CERN, which allows researchers to share publications and supporting data, facilitating open collaboration. The repository is launched today (8 May, 2013) and is designed specifically to help 'the long tail' of researchers based at smaller institutions to share results in a wide variety of formats across all fields of science.

Last week, iSGTW was at the European Grid Infrastructure Community Forum 2013. Find out what Nancy Rothwell, Peter Coveney, Kostas Glinos, and Steven Newhouse had to say during the opening plenary session. The quartet touch on a range of topics, from the importance of human capital and uniting e-infrastructures, to open access and future funding mechanisms.

The password seems to be reaching a crisis point. But is there anything that could replace passwords as we currently use them?

Next week, iSGTW is at the EGI Community Forum 2013 in Manchester, UK. Follow us on Twitter and visit the GridCast blog for updates.

Next week, iSGTW will be at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2013 and the CRISP 2nd Annual meeting. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for regular updates from both events.

As more and more scientific disciplines become data hungry,  governments and international bodies are starting to commit to developing frameworks that allow convenient, secure and intelligent access and exchange of data. Find out what delegates at the Cloudscape V conference in Brussels had to say on the matter.

As the second anniversary of the largest earthquake in Japanese history approaches, Ben Katsumi explains how cloud computing helped the relief effort following the natural disaster.

Plus: Discover how reseachers at the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency are using HPC to develop improved chemicals for cleaning up radioactive cesium isotopes.

Wolfgang Gentzsch, co-founder of the UberCloud HPC experiment and advisor to EUDAT, speaks exclusively to iSGTW about the challenges facing cloud computing in the run up to this month’s Cloudscape V conference in Brussels, Belgium. 

It may be named after a dying star, but the Helix Nebula project is very much alive. Now half way through its pilot phase, the project is moving ahead with new organizations coming on board.

Top figures from industry and academia tell iSGTW what they think 2013 has in store. Experts from CERN, The Open Science Grid, European Grid Infrastructure, The Top 500 List, and the Citizen Cyberscience Center share their predictions for the year ahead. 

Plus: What are you most excited about in the world of scientific computing in 2013? Why not tell us in our comments section? 

As grid and cloud computing evolve, so too will the security surrounding both. Read about current efforts to make these infrastructures more secure environments for research.