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19 November 2014

Prepping for the STORM: Overhauling storm-surge code

Since its development in the mid-1990s, ADCIRC has been widely used to simulate and predict water flow in US coastal areas. Read about STORM, an upgrade of the software driven by High Performance ParallelX (HPX), and designed for flexibility and speed.

Monica Kortsha
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Building clouds to boost academic research in Japan

Across Japan, universities and government departments are accelerating their research into cloud computing for academic use. Their research aims to enable improved sharing of cloud-computing resources between universities and to share know-how on the development, operation, and management of cloud-computing systems for further research.

Takeshi Motohashi
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Communicating science through visualization
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Cloudscape Brazil 2014 sets the scene for an EU-Brazil common ICT market for research and business development

Cloudscape Brazil 2014 was held on 20 October 2014 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event took a practical look at some of the major barriers to the adoption of cloud computing, exploring pathways for closer collaboration between Brazil and Europe on issues of common interest. High on the agenda was the ambition to shape cloud developments in Brazil and Europe by bringing insights into both current market trends and the challenges slowing down mainstream adoption, as well as into the cloud services and best practices to address them.

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