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14 March 2012

Forecasting the success of wind farms

How much electricity can a wind turbine produce? Finding the answer requires studying at least wind patterns and air turbulance, and weather data sets can be huge.

Professor of Scientific Computation Ashraf Hussein writes about how his team used massively parallel high performance computing to address this problem in Egypt.

Ashraf Hussein
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Collision chemistry

Chemical reactions aren't quite what we thought they were. Now, chemists are searching for the truth with the help of high-performance computing.

Aaron Dubrow
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Extreme Citizen Science

Extreme citizen science is about enabling any community around the globe to start a citizen science project that will help them deal with issues that concern them.

Zara Qadir
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Tevatron closes in on the Higgs Boson
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The 'greenest' volunteer grid of them all?

Charity Engine is a new volunteer computing project. Every processing job a volunteer completes creates money for the world's largest charities. It also promises to eventually be the most energy efficient computing grid on the planet.

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