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Cristy Burne

Recent articles by this author:

  • iSGTW - Bonus Feature: Readers talk back June 25, 2008 - 1:00am
    Bonus Feature: Readers talk back about standards —Paul Strong, e-Bay “For all of us, standards are a means to an end: interoperability that enables integration, collaboration, choice of vendor products/components and reduced costs...
  • iSGTW - Grid computing walks the standard line June 25, 2008 - 1:00am
    Grid computing walks the standard line: thinking inside the box With many projects involved, truly seamlesss interoperability can be a challenge.Image courtesy of NorduGrid and Vicky White“Standard” is often equated with “average...
  • iSGTW Feature - Les Robertson: six years at the head of the LCG February 27, 2008 - 1:00am
      Feature - Les Robertson: six years at the head of the LCG Les Robertson in 2001, “just before it [the LCG project] started,” and in 1974, when he first arrived at CERN.Images courtesy of Les Robertson In this special feature iSGTW...
  • iSGTW Feature - I2U2: educational e-Labs for real pre-college e-science January 16, 2008 - 1:00am
      Feature - I2U2: educational e-Labs for real pre-college e-science Students participating in an I2U2 QuarkNet e-Lab must construct their own cosmic ray detector, devise their own research questions and decide how to analyze their data and what to...
  • iSGTW Feature - Montage a rising star in grid-enabled sky mosaics December 12, 2007 - 1:00am
      Feature - Montage a rising star in grid-enabled sky mosaics This mosaic was created using Montage and centers on the dark cloud Barnard 92. The dark clouds cataloged by Barnard contain so much dust that they obscure the light of stars embedded...
  • iSGTW Feature - PRIUS: a global university for a borderless future November 21, 2007 - 1:00am
      Feature - PRIUS: a global university for a borderless future Susumu Date coordinates the PRIUS project, which aims to create strong leaders for next-generation distributed IT.Image courtesy of iSGTW Grid computing is as much about people as it...
  • iSGTW Editorial - Snapshot of the future from the floor of SC07 November 14, 2007 - 1:00am
      Editorial - Snapshot of the future from the floor of SC07 Congratulations to the dedicated teams who have gathered at SC07 from universities and institutions across the globe to present their grid technologies to the rest of the cutting edge IT...
  • iSGTW Feature - Distributed security: keeping Open Science Grid closed to intruders November 7, 2007 - 1:00am
      Feature - Distributed security: keeping Open Science Grid closed to intruders “A feeling of false safety is much more dangerous than always being on our toes.” Head of OSG Security Mine Altunay says constant vigilance is essential....
  • iSGTW Feature - Disaster management: in safe hands with FireGrid September 26, 2007 - 1:00am
      Feature - Disaster management: in safe hands with FireGrid The burden of fire safety-related activities on Western industrialized economies has been estimated (by Snell and by Richardson) to be between 0.6 percent and 1 percent of Gross Domestic...
  • iSGTW Feature - ATLAS: the data chain works September 19, 2007 - 1:00am
      Feature - ATLAS: the data chain works Tracks recorded in the muon chambers of the ATLAS detector can now be expressed to physicists all over the world, enabling simultaneous analysis at sites across the globe. The European and U.S. sites are...