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15 August 2012

Record-breaking US drought set to become the norm

Climate simulations carried out using the XSEDE grid-computing infrastructure predict that the US is likely to be affected by the levels of extreme drought it is currently experiencing in 20 years out of every 50 by the end of this century.

 

                                               

Andrew Purcell
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Can clouds transform science?

The ISC Cloud’12 conference is on September 24 to 25 2012, in Manheim, Germany. ISGTW is a media partner of the event. As a build up, the chairman of ISC cloud conferences has interviewed a key speaker. Manish Parashar, founding director of large-scale computational resources at Rutgers and the National Science Foundation, talks about the role of clouds in computational and data-enabled science and engineering, and how these applications can benefit from clouds.

Wolfgang Gentzsch
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How grid computing helped CERN hunt the Higgs

Unless you've been living under a rock for the past month, you're almost certainly aware that on 4 July scientists at CERN announced they had discovered a particle consistent with the Higgs boson. However, what you may not know is that distributed computing played a crucial role in the race towards this discovery.

Joannah Caborn Wengler
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Postcards from Mars – but how did they get here?
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Go on a particle quest at the first CERN hackfest

An Android-based cosmic ray detector, an open data initiative, a browser-based LHC dashboard and a standard infographic for the standard model… just some of the innovations to come out of the 2012 CERN Summer Student Webfest.

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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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