Ultra-fast networks: the final frontier

By combining the latest hardware, a Dutch team named SARA demonstrated one of the fastest research networks in the world, rendered from almost two thousand kilometers away in real time, at twice the quality of high-definition streaming.

The team streamed an astrophysics simulation demonstrating the motion of 8.6 billion dark matter particles, which is useful for scientists examining how cosmic structures formed after the universe's creation.

What made this performance unique is that no complex computer clusters were used, only off-the-shelf hardware and an ultra-fast data link.

Could this infrastructure have benefits beyond the realm of science?

Back to Basics

LHC open to all

Muons and mesons and quarks—oh my! Never fear, Dorothy, the Large Hadron Collider and open-source software will save the day.

Project Profile

From grids to clouds and beyond

GRNET goes the distance to support Greek researchers.

Link of the week

Physics for poets

At the scifaiku website, fans of science fiction can express their passion for time travel, spaceships and aliens in the ancient Japanese poetic form known as haiku. What if iSGTW readers could do the same for our field?