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10 July 2013

View from above: a planet brimming with data

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…

 

Andrew Purcell
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PRObE testbed: A first of its kind makes large-scale systems research possible



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.

Amber Harmon
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A colorful image that could lead to better antibiotics
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Spotlight
CERN’s Flückiger joins Internet Hall of Fame

CERN computer scientist François Flückiger has been inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame, which celebrates individuals selected by the Internet Society for their significant contribution to the development and the advancement of the internet.

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From the early days of grid computing to the era of ‘big science’

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A decade of iSGTW!

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