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iSGTW 16 November 2006

Feature - Exploring the Gravitational Wave and Grid Universe

Feature: Exploring the Gravitational Wave (and Grid) Universe Simulated map of upper limits on gravitational wave power reaching the LIGO detectors. Image from  S. Ballmer, Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) S179-S186.(Image Credit Stefan Ballmer)Scientists have been on the hunt for gravitational waves for over 35 years. Predicted by Einstein in 1916, these waves – ripples in the fabric of space and time – promise to reveal new insight into the birth and evolution of the universe, but have yet to be directly detected. The largest experiment to date searching for these waves, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, has been on the hunt for the perfect grid for almost a decade.Searching for gravitational waves is a data- and processing-intensive task. LIGO’s three instruments – two in Washington State and one in Louisiana – combine to collect one terabyte of data per day. LIGO researchers comb through this data searching for gravitational waves from a number of sources, including the collis

Katie Yurkewicz
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Feature - WISDOM vs. Malaria - Round Two

Feature: WISDOM vs. Malaria: (Round Two) Left: Structure of a potential antimalarial drug. Right: A simulation of the drug binding to a protein from the malaria parasite. (Image Credit Vinod KASAM, CNRS/IN2P3) In the often poorly attended fight against neglected diseases, the World-wide In Silico Docking On Malaria initiative is proving to be a strong contender. WISDOM, which launched its second assault on malaria last month, harnesses the power of grid computing to look for drug candidates to treat the disease. “Drug development is a very expensive process,” said Vincent Breton, WISDOM Coordinator from LPC Clermont-Ferrand, “but using grid technology and with the support of our partners in academia and industry, we are able to significantly cut costs for its initial step. By finding good drug candidates for neglected diseases in such a rapid and cost-effective way, we can help to move away from the sad economic situation that made them n

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From the Editor

From the Editor: I is for International (Image credit SLAC) Welcome to the first issue of International Science Grid This Week. Like its predecessor Science Grid This Week, this new publication will bring you weekly news about the people and projects involved in grid computing and the science that relies on it, but with a new worldwide focus. The iSGTW newsletter will continue to be emailed free to subscribers and available through an RSS feed. The iSGTW Web site will act as a portal to content featured in the weekly newsletter and, in the future, to additional scientific grid computing information on the Web.iSGTW is a collaboration between the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project in Europe and the Open Science Grid project in the United States. While these projects support the newsletter, iSGTW will continue Science Grid This Week’s tradition of independently reporting news and information from many different scientific grids.Submissions and suggestions for iSGTW are welcomed and encouraged. If you

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Feature - Building the Global Grid

Feature: Building the Global Grid Map of grid sites worldwide from projects participating in the Open Grid Forum's Grid Interoperation Now Group. (Image Courtesy GridPP Interoperability. It’s a big word for an even bigger task: getting the world’s dozens of grid computing projects to operate as one seamless global Grid. Over the past decade, many different grid projects, serving different communities, with their own approaches to grid technologies, have sprung up around the world. Scientists needing to access resources – computing power, data storage, scientific instruments – associated with different grids find the task difficult, if not impossible.“Our goal is to produce grid infrastructures and software that facilitates collaboration for science,” says Laurence Field from the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project. “To create a uniform environment for scientists, we have to break down all the administrative do

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Image of the Week - Spallation Neutron Source
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Spotlight
Link of the Week - Grid Acronym Soup

Link of the Week: Grid Acronym Soup GridPP's Web site hosts the Grid Acronym Soup, a guide to some of the acronyms used in the grid computing community. If you can't find your acronym in the list, links to other projects' acronym compilations and glossaries are also included in the Soup.

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