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13 February 2013

Fleeting stellar unions, and feisty red outbursts

A recently published study from the University of Alberta, Canada, examines what happens when binary stars come together. The research, published in the journal Science, has also shed ‘light’ on where mysterious cool and red outbursts, called intermediate-luminosity red transients, originate form.

 

 

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Forecasting the challenges and highlights of Cloudscape V with Wolfgang Gentzsch

Wolfgang Gentzsch, co-founder of the UberCloud HPC experiment and advisor to EUDAT, speaks exclusively to iSGTW about the challenges facing cloud computing in the run up to this month’s Cloudscape V conference in Brussels, Belgium. 

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CERN and Oracle celebrate 30 years of collaboration

On Friday 1 February, 2013, CERN and Oracle celebrated 30 years of collaboration. In addition to providing hardware and software to CERN for three decades, Oracle has now been involved in the CERN openlab project for 10 years.

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17-million-digit prime number smashes world record

A researcher from the University of Missouri has broken a 4-year-old record for the largest ever prime number discovered. The discovery was made thanks to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a distributed computing project established in 1996.

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