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9 November 2011

Towards a pan-European collaborative data infrastructure

Sustainable data management and preservation is one of the major problems facing scientists today. Now, the newly-launched EUDAT project has its sights on creating a pan-European solution to the challenge of data proliferation in Europe's scientific and research communities.

Damien Lecarpentier
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Insights from spinning samples

The UltraScan web portal and supercomputers help researchers find deeper insight into the purity, structure, and behavior of proteins, DNA, and RNA.

Aaron Dubrow
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Accelerating materials research in the information age

Finding better materials for clean energy technologies takes far too long - 18 years from concept to commercialization. But computing could change that.

Linda Vu
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iSGTW goes to SC11
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Data science becomes a sport

'Crowd sourcing' website Kaggle asks scientists and statisticians to mine data to help solve outstanding puzzles for NASA, healthcare providers, and other large companies - and those who provide the right answers can earn up to three million dollars for their time.

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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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