23 July 2014

Creating a pan-European data infrastructure

The Third EUDAT Conference will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, from 24-25 September. iSGTW talks to Per Oster about the event and the progress EUDAT is making in realizing its vision of a collaborative data infrastructure. Oster is director of research infrastructures at Finland’s IT Center for Science (CSC), which is the organization coordinating the EUDAT project.

Andrew Purcell

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A case for computational mechanics in medicine

Classically, computational mechanics has been applied to industries like energy, materials, transportation, and defense.

According to researchers at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin, US, however, some of the most important advancements in computational mechanics are taking place on a much smaller scale, within a familiar setting: the human body.

Monica Kortsha

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iSGTW is back on 13 August

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Spotlight

MicroBooNE detector to see neutrinos this year

“The scientific potential of MicroBooNE is really exciting,” says Bonnie Fleming, co-spokesperson for the MicroBooNE experiment and Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, US. “After a long time spent designing and building the detector, we are thrilled to start taking data later this year.”

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From the early days of grid computing to the era of ‘big science’

As iSGTW celebrates its 10th anniversary, Katie Yurkewicz, the publication’s first editor, looks back at the challenges of establishing an e-newsletter to support the fledgling grid-computing community and highlights how the…

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A decade of iSGTW!

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