iSGTW 16 November 2006

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Feature: Building the Global Grid

Map of grid sites worldwide from projects participating in the Open Grid Forum's Grid Interoperation Now Group.
(Image Courtesy GridPP)

Interoperability. It’s a big word for an even bigger task: getting the world’s dozens of grid computing projects to operate as one seamless global Grid.

Over the past decade, many different grid projects, serving different communities, with their own approaches to grid technologies, have sprung up around the world. Scientists needing to access resources – computing power, data storage, scientific instruments – associated with different grids find the task difficult, if not impossible.

Feature - Science

Exploring the Gravitational
Wave (and Grid) Universe
Scientists have been on the hunt for gravitational waves for over 35 years. Predicted by Einstein in 1916, these waves – ripples in the fabric of space and time – promise to reveal new insight into the birth and evolution of the universe, but have yet to be directly detected.

Feature - Science

WISDOM vs. Malaria:
Round Two
In the often poorly attended fight against neglected diseases, the World-wide In Silico Docking On Malaria initiative is proving to be a strong contender. WISDOM, which launched its second assault on malaria last month, harnesses the power of grid computing to look for drug candidates to treat the disease.

From the Editor

I is for International
Welcome to the first issue of International Science Grid This Week. Like its predecessor Science Grid This Week, this new publication will bring you weekly news about the people and projects involved in grid computing and the science that relies on it, but with a new worldwide focus.

The iSGTW newsletter will continue to be emailed free to subscribers and available through an RSS feed.

Image of the Week - Science

Spallation Neutron Source

Link of the Week

Grid Acronym Soup
GridPP's Web site hosts the Grid Acronym Soup, a guide to some of the acronyms used in the grid computing community. If you can't find your acronym in the list, links to other projects' acronym compilations and glossaries are also included in the Soup.

Announcement

Workshops and Papers Sought for HPDC 2007
Workshop proposals and papers are invited for HPDC 2007, the Sixteenth International Conference on High Performance Distributed Computing, which will take place June 27-29, 2007 in Monterey Bay, California, USA.