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5 December 2012

Revolutionizing rotorcraft design with CFD

High-resolution computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations created by NASA researchers are improving rotorcraft aeromechanics and design predictions.

 

 

Amber Harmon
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Is it time for the operating system to get on the cloud?

Researchers in China have developed TransOS, a transparent operating system and integrated services for the cloud. Is this simply the next logical step following movement towards software as a service?

Amber Harmon
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Google Science Fair winner builds neural network to fight cancer

This summer, Florida high school student Brittanny Wenger was awarded first place in the Google Science Fair. She created a cloud-based neural network to help doctors better detect breast cancer using a less invasive form of biopsy.

Andrew Purcell
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Meet Wim Klein - CERN's human supercomputer
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Predicting the future for science and technology in Europe

Last week, funders, policy makers, e-infrastructure providers, researchers, and industry leaders met in Brussels for the 2012 SciTech Europe conference. Robert Winston, one of the speakers at the event, warned of the inherent difficulty of predicting 'the next big thing' in science and technology.

 

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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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