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Catherine Gater reports from the 5^th CAPRI Evaluation Meeting in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The event focused on assessing and improving the performance of docking methods in predicting the 3D structure of protein complexes.

The password seems to be reaching a crisis point. But is there anything that could replace passwords as we currently use them?

A researcher from the University of Missouri has broken a 4-year-old record for the largest ever prime number discovered. The discovery was made thanks to the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search, a distributed computing project established in 1996.

Wolfgang Gentzsch, co-founder of the UberCloud HPC experiment and advisor to EUDAT, speaks exclusively to iSGTW about the challenges facing cloud computing in the run up to this month’s Cloudscape V conference in Brussels, Belgium. 

Scientists go to the ends of the Earth to study the current state of polar ice sheets, collecting vast amounts of data — three to four terabytes per flight. Read about the clustered computing system and high-speed network in the clouds that make this possible.

The Sequoia supercomputer has simulated the human heart at an unprecedented scale, a breakthrough for the use of computational medicine by doctors to prevent sudden cardiac death.

The latest computer simulations show that nuclear fusion reactions which produce more power than is put in are just around the corner - but recent experiments have called into question the accuracy of these computer models.

With the IEEE International Conference on eScience 2012 under a week away, iSGTW caught up with Ian Foster, general chair and moderator of the event. We get his opinions on the key areas of focus of the program, the challenges being addressed, and what attendees should watch out for.

A new and easy way of accessing a global computing grid and the processing power of tens of thousands of cores are at the fingertips of anyone: researcher, student, or citizen scientist.

On 17 September, the MetOp-B satellite was successfully launched into orbit. The data transmitted by this and other European satellites will help build a better picture of severe weather and the climate.

Researchers in China have come up with a blueprint for restructuring mega data centres to boost performance by reducing the impact of hardware failures

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