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A significant expansion of the CERN Computer Centre was inaugurated last week. The project, for which construction work began in April 2011, has seen the addition of a new computer room housing 90 new racks of servers, enabling critical systems to be decoupled from those deemed non-critical.

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.

Catherine Gater reports from the 5^th 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.

BioVeL is a European virtual e-laboratory that supports research on biodiversity issues using large amounts of data from cross-disciplinary sources. 

Michael Hortmann, a leading expert in cryptography from the University of Bremen will be chairing a session on cryptography and security at this year’s International Supercomputing ’13 conference.

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.

Following last week's EGI Community Forum 2013, read our pick of the highlights from the GridCast blog.

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

The Planck’s space telescope's ability to measure tiny fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background may lead scientists to rethink theories of how the universe began and how it is evolving. Learn more about the cosmic microwave background and the surprises it revealed.

'CRISP', is a European project established to help encourage and enable collaborating partners to combine their know-how and complementary expertise in the field of physics research in an effective manner. iSGTW reports from their 2nd Annual meeting, which was held at the Paul Scherrer Institute last week.

High-performance computing veteran Thomas Sterling will be delivering a keynote speech on HPC achievement and impact at this year's International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig Germany (ISC'13). He speaks exclusively to Nages Sieslack...

How do scientists use supercomputers to predict complex things like weather, climate, earthquakes, and the formation of galaxies? Watch this video to see how supercomputers handle mathematical modeling.