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iSGTW 13 December 2006

iSGTW Feature - Bringing Arts and Humanities into the Grid

Feature: Bringing Arts and Humanities into the Grid Image from a virtual gallery created with the CITRIS Collaborative Gallery Builder, a project associated with HASTAC. Image courtesy CITRIS and the University of California Since 2003, the HASTAC consortium has worked toward the novel objective of developing software and hardware solutions for the worlds of the arts and humanities. HASTAC — which stands for Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory — also advocates the inclusion of thought on the social, ethical and access issues of technology in parallel with its creation. “The idea was for humanities professors to look at ways to incorporate technologies like grid computing into their research,” says HASTAC Project Leader Jonathan Tarr. “They needed to save humanities from becoming a group of scholars who only work on physical text and weren’t going a

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iSGTW Feature - Beyond Science: Grids for the Media at IST 2006

Feature: Beyond Science: Grids for the Media at IST 2006

European Commissioner Viviane Reding speaking at the plenary session of IST 2006.
Image Courtesy europa.eu.int

Media convergence could seem a concept distant from the scientists and IT specialists working on the grid, but it may provide the next application area for grid technology. Broadcasting and the media industry share the need to generate, preserve and manage huge quantities of digital content, which could be facilitated by distributed systems such as grids. These ideas were recently explored at the IST 2006 conference held in Helsinki, Finland, through a session hosted by BELIEF, the Bringing eLectronic Infrastructures to Expanding Frontiers project.“Several case studies have helped us understand current forms of convergence, like television and mobile,” said Stephen Benians, BELIEF coordinator. “Other presentations have brought to the fore new domains, such

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iSGTW Feature - A Fair Shake for Seismologists

Feature: A Fair Shake for Seismologists

Instantaneous surface velocity 75 seconds after the earthquake origin time. The warm colors leading from the fault region into the Los Angeles area illustrate how a chain of sedimentary basins can guide earthquake waves away from the fault where they originate into heavily populated regions in Southern California.

In the Midwestern United States, in the spring, there are weeks when you can't get through an episode of your favorite television show without an alert telling you that your county is under a tornado watch or, more invasive still, the local meteorologist interrupting programming to tell you to head to your basement. It saves lives, and it represents an incredible amount of simulation and data collection — even if you do have to scurry to the Web later to find out how “Lost” ended that week.
There may never be an equivalent for temblors, a local “earthquake man” breaki

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iSGTW Image of the Week - Using WestGrid for Earth Sciences
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iSGTW Acronym of the Week - GrEnaDE

Acronym of the Week: GrEnaDE

GrEnaDE, which stands for Grid-Enabled Desktop Environments, is a project that aims to accelerate the rollout of computational grids by addressing the issues of accessibility and visibility directly, through tight integration of grid functionality within the user's desktop. GrEnaDE builds on existing grid and commodity technologies to provide small but tangible improvements to usersÂ’ desktop environments. GrEnaDE is a project of the Manchester Research Centre for Computational Science at the UK's University of Manchester.

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