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March 20, 2013
Stories from the Grid: Are comets born in asteroid collisions?

Video courtesy EGI.eu.

Are comets born in asteroid collisions? Find out in the latest episode of EGI.eu's Stories from the Grid. Plus, discover more in our recent feature, here.

March 13, 2013
Faster than a speeding… supercomputer!

How do scientists use supercomputers to predict complex things like weather, climate, earthquakes, and the formation of galaxies? Watch this video to see how supercomputers handle mathematical modeling.

March 13, 2013
Follow us on social media for updates from top global e-science conferences

Next week, iSGTW will be at the International Symposium on Grids and Clouds 2013 and the CRISP 2nd Annual meeting. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ for regular updates from both events.

 

March 13, 2013
Measuring the success of European e-infrastructures

Last week, the 10th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting took place, hosted by the European Commission Services with the support of the e-ScienceTalk project. Find out what delegates at the event had to say on the subject of measuring project impact and success.

Plus: Read the highlights of discussions concerning the development of the computational infrastructure of 21st century science.

March 13, 2013
Nurturing an open data culture at Cloudscape V

As more and more scientific disciplines become data hungry,  governments and international bodies are starting to commit to developing frameworks that allow convenient, secure and intelligent access and exchange of data. Find out what delegates at the Cloudscape V conference in Brussels had to say on the matter.

March 6, 2013
E-infrastructure success stories

Announcing the winners of the e-Infrastructure FP7 Project Success Story Competition. Plus, be sure to follow us on social media and check out the GridCast blog for regular updates from the 10th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting in Brussels.

March 6, 2013
Listening to the music of the brain could be key to treating epilepsy

Thanks to the high-speed GÉANT network and the computing power of the European Grid Infrastructure, researchers in Italy are creating music from electroencephalography data. Listening to these melodies could help researchers forecast impending seizures.

March 6, 2013
The role of e-infrastructures in natural-disaster response

As the second anniversary of the largest earthquake in Japanese history approaches, Ben Katsumi explains how cloud computing helped the relief effort following the natural disaster.

Plus: Discover how reseachers at the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency are using HPC to develop improved chemicals for cleaning up radioactive cesium isotopes.

 

March 6, 2013
The world is our calculator

Last month, CERN hosted two Google+ Hangouts on the topic of the Worldwide LHC Grid, or WLCG for short.

The first, 'LHC and the Grid — The world is our calculator', can be watched in full, here...

 

February 27, 2013
Tracking Kyrgyzstan’s melting glaciers

Climate change is having a catastrophic impact on the environment in central Asia, where the Tien Shan glacier lost nearly 2 km3 of ice per year between 1955 and 2000. However, a greater capacity to share meteorological data at a local and international level could help mitigate future natural hazards. Discover how the CAREN and GÉANT networks are helping scientists in the region to achieve this.

February 20, 2013
CERN data center passes 100 petabytes

Computer engineers at CERN last week announced that the CERN data center has recorded over 100 petabytes of physics data over the last 20 years.

February 20, 2013
Interview: Gerhard Wellein

ISC'13 keynote speaker Gerhard Wellein on how he got into supercomputing and why parallel programming is just like going for a run.

February 13, 2013
CERN and Oracle celebrate 30 years of collaboration

On Friday 1 February, 2013, CERN and Oracle celebrated 30 years of collaboration. In addition to providing hardware and software to CERN for three decades, Oracle has now been involved in the CERN openlab project for 10 years.

February 13, 2013
Forecasting the challenges and highlights of Cloudscape V with Wolfgang Gentzsch

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. 

February 6, 2013
NASA's IRIS set to launch

Using an ultraviolet telescope and imaging spectrograph, NASA's IRIS (Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph) spacecraft will set out on a two-year mission to answer how the sun's corona gets so hot.

February 6, 2013
Simulations: The dark side

What happens when the limits of particular simulations are reached? Read about Monte Carlo and Molecular Dynamics methods and the ways you can keep your simulations from venturing over into the dark side.

January 23, 2013
The future for science in Europe is bright – and full of clouds!

It may be named after a dying star, but the Helix Nebula project is very much alive. Now half way through its pilot phase, the project is moving ahead with new organizations coming on board.

January 23, 2013
The future for science in Europe is bright – and full of clouds!

It may be named after a dying star, but the Helix Nebula project is very much alive. Now half way through its pilot phase, the project is moving ahead with new organizations coming on board.

January 23, 2013
The SciencePAD treasure hunt of persistent identifiers

Wouldn't it be great if experimental data and research results were available permanently? Wouldn't it be wondeful if you never had to click on a broken link to a research paper again?

January 23, 2013
What's in a name — the battle to save Brazil's biodiversity

Brazil has one of the highest levels of plant biodiversity in the world, but many local habitats are under pressure. Find out how the EUBrazilOpenBio project is using cloud computing to help conservation efforts in the region.

 

 

January 23, 2013
What's in a name — the battle to save Brazil's biodiversity

Brazil has one of the highest levels of plant biodiversity in the world, but many local habitats are under pressure. Find out how the EUBrazilOpenBio project is using cloud computing to help conservation efforts in the region.

 

 

January 9, 2013
Desktop power helps map protein dance

Volunteers from the World Community Grid have helped scientists conduct research into over 5 million protein-protein interactions. The computational simulations provide scientists with a greater understanding of the roles proteins play in neuromuscular diseases.

 

 

January 9, 2013
Goldy locks: Scientists synthesize gold nanoparticles inside human hair

 
December 19, 2012
Big in 2013 - find out what the experts say

Top figures from industry and academia tell iSGTW what they think 2013 has in store. Experts from CERN, The Open Science Grid, European Grid Infrastructure, The Top 500 List, and the Citizen Cyberscience Center share their predictions for the year ahead. 

 

 

Plus: What are you most excited about in the world of scientific computing in 2013? Why not tell us in our comments section? 

December 19, 2012
Our highlights of 2012

With the year almost over we look back at the debates, controversies, and achievements in the world of science and computing. Read our countdown of iSGTW’s most popular stories of 2012.