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3 December 2014

Volunteer computing: 10 years of supporting CERN through LHC@home

LHC@home recently celebrated a decade since its launch in 2004. Through its SixTrack project, the LHC@home platform harnesses the power of volunteer computing to model the progress of sub-atomic particles traveling at nearly the speed of light around CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. The number of projects supported by LHC@home is growing and the platform now has over 100,000 users from across the globe.

Andrew Purcell
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Bridges: A new approach to supercomputing

The US National Science Foundation has awarded $9.65m to build Bridges, a uniquely capable supercomputer designed to enable new research communities and bring desktop convenience to supercomputing.

"Foremost, Bridges will bring supercomputing to nontraditional users and research communities," says Nick Nystrom, principal investigator of the project and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center director of strategic applications.

Amber Harmon
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Photosynthetic light harvesting: Three decades of research in motion
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Jetstream: A cloud for science and engineering research

The NSF expects so spend nearly $11m over the next five years to create, implement, and operate Jetstream. The user-friendly cloud environment will give researchers and students access to computing and data analysis resources on demand — from their tablets, laptops, or desktop computers.

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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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