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10 April 2013

Federating access – the key to improving online security?

The password seems to be reaching a crisis point. But is there anything that could replace passwords as we currently use them?

 

 

 

Stefan Janusz
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Blue Waters enables groundbreaking computational science

Blue Waters, entering full deployment, is now crunching numbers around the clock at the National Petascale Computing Facility at the University of Illinois, US. Led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications Blue Waters is funded by the US National Science Foundation to address the most challenging compute-, memory-, and data-intensive problems in science and engineering.

Amber Harmon
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Tracking the success of e-infrastructures at ISGC2013

At this year's International Symposium on Grids and Clouds, EGI's Steven Newhouse and NSF's Daniel Katz, provided perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean on ways to measure the success of e-infrastructures, including the people and services that contribute to their development.

Zara Qadir
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Building the world's fastest car
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A Stampede for science

The University of Texas at Austin and TACC competed against the top supercomputing centers and universities to claim one of the most advanced systems in the world — and won. The prize, an estimated $50 million-plus investment over a four-year period.

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