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13 November 2013

Computational needs for the growing field of neural engineering

Because neural engineering is still a relatively new discipline, its direction remains undefined. Only imagination and compute resources limit research into design problems at the interface of living neural tissue and non-living constructs.

 

Amber Harmon
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Making computing for ‘big science’ more green

Last month, CERN played host to the 2nd Workshop on Energy for Sustainable Science at Research Infrastructures. Delegates discussed how various aspects of large-scale research infrastructures could be made more energy efficient, including the computing centers which underpin the science carried out.

Andrew Purcell
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March of the titans
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SC13 kicks off with keynote by Genevieve Bell

Noted anthropologist and Intel fellow Genevieve Bell will officially open the SC13 conference taking place in Denver, Colorado, US, November 17. SC13 – known for its first class technical program, as well as one of the fastest networks in the world – is celebrating its 25th year. Bell will share her unique perspective on big data with the supercomputing community.

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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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