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10 July 2013

Last month, the European Space Agency in Frascati, Italy, played host to an event titled ‘Big data from space’. Wolfgang Lengert, manager of two separate Earth-observation satellite missions at ESA, gives iSGTW his take on the event…

 

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High-performance computing centers and national labs across the US provide scientists and researchers with a wide array of managed, high-performance resources to run applications. However, a large-scale test bed for computer scientists and systems researchers has been hard to come by – until now.

The New Mexico Consortium, a non-profit corporation formed by three New Mexico research universities to advance scientific research and education, is home to PRObE, the first large-scale testb bed of its kind in the US, and possibly the world. Read about this unique US National Science Foundation-sponsored resource.

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This issue marks the 10th anniversary of iSGTW. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers and all those who have contributed to the publication over the last decade.

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