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10 October 2012

Who or what really inspired Mozart?

An online tool called Peachnote uses a distributed computing approach to enable instant identification of classical music scores. But, its terabytes of data may also redefine what we think we know about the classical greats like Beethoven and Mozart.

 

 

 

 

Adrian Giordani
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Cloud could give European economy €1 trillion boost by 2020, predicts EC report

A recently published European Commission report argues that cloud computing has the potential to boost the European economy by roughly €957 million by 2020, as well as creating 3.8 million jobs... but only if the right policies are put in place. 

Andrew Purcell
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Visualizing data as if under a microscope

Artist by trade, Francesca Samsel, uses the highest resolution visualization system in the world, at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, US, to showcase scientific data in a highly accessible, but accurate way.

Monica Kortsha
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Mobile healthcare uptake increases
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Spotlight
The Grid is open, so please come in…

The European Grid Infrastructure is about supporting much more than just particle physics research you know. This week's Spotlight features an article published in the CERN Bulletin, which highlights this fact, as well as introducing the organization's new 'EGI Champions' scheme.

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

As iSGTW celebrates its 10th anniversary, Katie Yurkewicz, the publication’s first editor, looks back at the challenges of establishing an e-newsletter to support the fledgling grid-computing community and highlights how the...

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A decade of iSGTW!

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