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24 July 2013

Virtual screening powered by high-throughput computing

Could SPLInter be cancer researcher’s first step in finding compounds that could simultaneously shut down multiple proteins? Read about one scientist’s effort and the high-throughput computing resources bringing him one step closer to the answer.

Amber Harmon
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e-IRG Workshop: Putting users in the driving seat

Over 100 delegates gathered in Dublin, Ireland, at the end of May for the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group bi-annual workshop. Representatives from 23 countries met to discuss the best policies for coordination of a European-wide open and innovative e-infrastructure.

Zara Qadir
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Harnessing the power of the grid for structural biology
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World’s first quantum computer indeed

Scientists have finally verified that the D-Wave 128 qubit processor performs optimization calculations in which quantum mechanics plays a functional role. This rules out previous ideas that the processor made use of classical physics. Read about this new dawn for quantum computing.

- Amber Harmon

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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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