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2 July 2014

Supporting world-class research at ISC’14

Last week, iSGTW attended the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’14) in Leipzig, Germany. The event featured a range of speakers representing a wide variety of research domains. Awards given by PRACE and Germany’s Gauss Centre for Supercomputing highlighted some of the outstanding research on show at the event. And, of course, the new TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers was announced.

Andrew Purcell
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Computational medicine: A new era for understanding, diagnosing, and treating human disease

Powerful computational platforms are enabling scientists to identify, analyze, and compare the fundamental biological components and processes that regulate human diseases and their impacts. Traditional evidence-based medicine, where testing and prescription follow personal testimony, is a one-size-fits-all approach that will one day be replaced by predictive, ongoing, numerical statements of health. Advances in modeling and simulation also play a key role in improved patient outcomes. Read about computational medicine and the shifts — from reactive to predictive — taking place in healthcare.

Amber Harmon
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Building an E-ARK for the archival data deluge

National archives play a vital role in safeguarding information and enabling access to it. However, the exact approaches taken to achieve these goals vary widely across Europe. As such, there is a critical need for an overarching methodology for archiving data that can become the gold standard throughout the continent. The E-ARK project was launched earlier this year to develop such a methodology. 

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