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22 October 2014

Transatlantic network extends 100-gigabit connectivity between US and Europe

ESnet is deploying four new high-speed transatlantic links to London, Amsterdam, and Geneva. The high-speed links will give researchers at US universities and national laboratories ultra-fast access to scientific data from the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, located near Geneva, Switzerland, as well as other key computing facilities in Europe.

Amber Harmon
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Blue-sky thinking for clouds in Heidelberg

iSGTW recently attended the ISC Cloud '14 conference in Heidelberg, Germany. The event focused on the intersection between cloud and high-performance computing (HPC), with in-depth first-hand reports on the latest technological developments in these fields. Researchers from a wide range of organizations discussed their work and offered practical recommendations about how to best utilize cloud-based computing.

Andrew Purcell
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Building a network for health research in Africa
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Laying the groundwork for data-driven science

The US National Science Foundation aims to improve the nation's capacity in data science by investing in infrastructure development, increasing the number of data scientists, and augmenting the usefulness and ease of using data. Read about the Data Infrastructure Building Blocks program, and new funding for 17 projects in 22 states.

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From the early days of grid computing to the era of ‘big science’

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A decade of iSGTW!

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