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Anne Heavey

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  • Feature - Sifting for dark matter January 27, 2010 - 12:00am
    Feature: The grid that sifts for dark matter Cryogenic Dark Matter Search detectors. The CDMS experiment uses five towers of six detectors each. Photo credit: Reidar Hahn. Think of grid computing as a sieve that physicists use to sift out those rare...
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  • Feature - Cancer knowledge cloud for a new generation of medicine July 1, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Cancer Knowledge Cloud for a new generation of medicine Kenneth Buetow, shown speaking at a conference in 2005.Image courtesy of NCRI. Kenneth Buetow is the National Cancer Institute’s Associate Director of Bioinformatics and IT, and...
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  • Feature - Clarity in clinical care June 3, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Clarity in clinial care: achieving fully interoperable databases Werner CeustersImage courtesy of W. Ceusters. Werner Ceusters, director of the  Ontology Research Group at the NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences...
  • Feature - Grid computing promotes diversity in biotech June 3, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Grid promotes diversity in biotechnology at Virginia State Image courtesy of VSU, Biology department. Biotechnology is one of the fastest-growing sectors in science, but it suffers from a lack of diversity in its workforce, as do many other...
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  • Feature - Identifying network bottlenecks May 20, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Identifying network bottlenecks Internet2 and the Open Science Grid have formed a partnership to deploy advanced network monitoring and diagnostic tools on the grid. Image courtesy of invoice-factoring.com.au. Network performance problems...
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  • iSGTW Feature - Open Parks Grid May 6, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Open Parks Grid: Managing natural and historic sites  Image courtesy of OPG. Widely considered integral to a healthy environment and society, parks and protected areas require care and maintenance by experts in diverse fields.  In a...
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  • iSGTW Feature - Embrace failure - TeraGrid fault tolerance workshop April 22, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Embrace failure! Don Lamb addressing the Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scalability Workshop, co-sponsored by The National Science Foundation Office of Cyberinfrastructure’s Blue Waters and TeraGrid projects. Image courtesy of TeraGrid...
  • iSGTW Feature - Clouds make way for STAR to shine April 8, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Clouds make way for STAR to shine Jérôme Lauret, left, and Kate Keahey, right. Images courtesy of J.Lauret and ANL, respectively. With local computers busy and the grid unable to guarantee workable resources on very short notice,...
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  • iSGTW Feature - Newly single, but playing hard to get March 18, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Single and playing hard to get Cecilia Gerber of the University of Illinois at Chicago presented the DZero result at a seminar at Fermilab, followed by Rainer Wallny of UCLA who presented the CDF result. Image courtesy of Fermilab...
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  • iSGTW Feature - Simulations to learn about cosmic evolution February 25, 2009 - 12:00am
    Feature - Using simulations to learn about cosmic evolution and its connections to Earth’s history A still from a simulated animation of a Type 1a supernova. Click image to see a low-res version of the animation (avi format for Windows). It is...