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26 September 2012

Researchers edge closer to solving 270-year-old math problem thanks to grid computing

The award for best poster at the EGI Technical Forum 2012 went to Silvio Pardi, who is using grid computing resources to help a team of mathematicians in their quest to solve the Goldbach conjecture.

Andrew Purcell
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Picking up the long tail of scientific computations

A new and easy way of accessing a global computing grid and the processing power of tens of thousands of cores are at the fingertips of anyone: researcher, student, or citizen scientist.

Adrian Giordani
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Globus Online launches new website for European researchers

The popular file-sharing tool comes to Europe with a new site aimed at fulfilling the specific needs of EU-based researchers.

 

Andrew Purcell
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Climate change: Global challenge, global grid
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Announcing the EGI Writing Prize 2013 in association with iSGTW

Are you a budding science writer? Or a researcher with a penchant for waxing lyrical about your work? Tell us your stories about grid computing and the science it underpins for your chance to win €500 worth of electronic goodies!

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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!

This issue marks the 10th anniversary of iSGTW. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our readers and all those who have contributed to the publication over the last decade.

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