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19 June 2013

Vital software provides critical data to public health policy makers

Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is just the latest virus with the potential to morph into an epidemic. HIV, Malaria, SARS, and H1N1 have made headlines while scientists struggle to create vaccines for these variable and evasive viruses. Read about FRED, a vital system enabling scientists to stay one step ahead of future epidemics, and ultimately inform policy makers on intervention and mitigation strategies.

Amber Harmon
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A coordinated approach for science in Europe

Horizon 2020, the European Commission’s next funding cycle, is set to launch in January 2014. With less than a year to go, you may be wondering: what is Horizon 2020? What makes it different to the frameworks that preceded it? And what are the implications, both for the e-infrastructure projects themselves and the researchers who benefit from them? e-Science Briefing’s Stefan Janusz gives an overview of the road ahead...

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Miniscule worlds create extreme data
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CERN inaugurates data center extension in Budapest

CERN and the Wigner Research Centre for Physics last week inaugurated the Hungarian data center in Budapest, marking the completion of the facility hosting the extension for CERN computing resources. About 500 servers, 20,000 computing cores, and 5.5 petabytes of storage are already operational at the site. The capacity at Wigner will be remotely managed from CERN, substantially extending the capabilities of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Tier-0 activities.

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