24 September 2014

Project will broaden access to geoscience data

Civil and environmental engineering professor Praveen Kumar, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, will lead a new project to develop a semantic framework to integrate long-tail data and models. The project is part of Earth Cube, a larger initiative involving hundreds of geoscientists.

Celeste Arbogast

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The societal impacts of grid and cloud computing

Monday 29 September marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, otherwise known as CERN, located near Geneva, Switzerland. A new book, entitled 'From Physics to Daily Life', highlights some of the many ways in which technology developed at CERN has impacted upon society at large.

Bob Jones, the head CERN openlab, writes in this book about the growth of distributed computing and the vital role this technology plays across a wide range of academic fields and business sectors.

Bob Jones

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More data needed to accurately predict Ebola’s spread

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Spotlight

Grid school empowers students in Africa’s developing countries

The African Grid School provides science communities exceptional opportunities to learn new technolgies and improve research techniques. Read about Open Science Grid and the biennial event.

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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!

This issue marks the 10th anniversary of iSGTW. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers and all those who have contributed to the publication over the last decade.

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