Home

Author Bios

Owen Appleton

Recent articles by this author:

  • Opinion - Transferring technology: grids in business October 28, 2009 - 1:00am
    Opinion - Transferring technology: grids in business Thanks to grids, three-dimensional images can be much easier for humans to comprehend — important for oil exploration when peering underground, as seen here in this image created with Reservoir,...
    7 Comments
  • Feature - Putting Linux on the grid October 14, 2009 - 1:00am
    Feature - Putting Linux on the grid Popular middleware flavours are now included as part of the standard selection box for Debian and Fedora users. Image courtesy Karen Andrews, stock.xchng In the field of grid computing, Globus has long been a major...
    11 Comments
  • Feature - Sharing in the Taverna May 13, 2009 - 1:00am
    Feature - Sharing in the Taverna Researchers used Taverna to model molecules such as bacteria. Image courtesy of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Grids are powerful tools, but for many scientists they remain too complex to easily adopt...
  • iSGTW Feature - Grids in the Blogosphere April 18, 2007 - 1:00am
    Feature - Grids in the BlogosphereStock image from www.sxc.hu Unknown a few years ago, keeping a blog (short for Weblog) is now a major trend, particularly in the technology and IT sectors. The grid domain is no exception. People from many aspects of...
  • iSGTW Feature - Europe looks forward to the EGI March 14, 2007 - 1:00am
    Feature - Europe looks forward to the European Grid Initiative A video about EGI has been created by the EGEE project. Image courtesy of EGEE. The European grid community is thinking about the future. Today many of the grid projects that are co-funded...
    1 Comments
  • iSGTW Feature - Parallel evolution: DILIGENT & ETICS March 7, 2007 - 1:00am
    Feature - Parallel Evolution: DILIGENT and ETICS Parallel evolution: two EU funded projects interacting for mutual benefit. Left, the ETICS interface. Right, watermarking and video curation, two functions of the DILIGENT system. Image courtesy of Owen...
    1 Comments
  • iSGTW Feature - Preparing for the LHC February 7, 2007 - 1:00am
    Feature: Preparing for the Large Hadron Collider Close to 300 members of the WLCG collaboration attended a recent workshop at CERN. Those in attendence represented 27 countries and 86...
    9 Comments
  • iSGTW Feature - Live Crunching in Switzerland January 17, 2007 - 1:00am
    Feature: Live Crunching in Switzerland Grids are complex and intangible systems, and demonstrating them to a wide audience can be difficult. The recent GridCrunch event rose to the challenge,...
  • iSGTW Feature - Government to Grid December 20, 2006 - 1:00am
    Feature: Government to grid Aleksandar Belic (left) with EC Commissioner for Science & Research Janez Potočnik (center) during a visit to the Belgrade Institute of Physics...
    9 Comments
  • iSGTW Feature - Beyond Science: Grids for the Media at IST 2006 December 13, 2006 - 1:00am
    Feature: Beyond Science: Grids for the Media at IST 2006 European Commissioner Viviane Reding speaking at the plenary session of IST 2006. Image Courtesy europa.eu.int Media convergence could seem a concept distant...
    5 Comments