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October 17, 2012
Federating clouds to aid researchers

Matteo Turrilli, head of the EGI Federated Cloud Task Force, reports on his team's efforts to unite cloud computing infrastructures for the benefit of researchers.

October 10, 2012
Cloud could give European economy €1 trillion boost by 2020, predicts EC report

A recently published European Commission report argues that cloud computing has the potential to boost the European economy by roughly €957 million by 2020, as well as creating 3.8 million jobs... but only if the right policies are put in place. 

September 26, 2012
Picking up the long tail of scientific computations

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.

April 23, 2012
e-IRG responds to the report of the GEANT Expert Group

In a newly released paper, e-IRG responds to the findings and recommendations of the report of the GEANT Expert Group (GEG).The GEG was established by the European Commission in December 2010, with the mandate to articulate a 2020 vision for European Research and Education networking and identify an action plan for realising this vision. On October 4, 2011 the GEG presented its vision and recommendations in its Report ‘Knowledge without Borders: GEANT 2020 as the European Communications Commons’.

February 21, 2012
neuGRID, the European online diagnosis environment for Alzheimer’s, goes global with outGRID and the United Nations

Geneva, 20 February 2012

neuGRID, a cloud-computing infrastructure funded by the European Commission that stores and analyses a vast database of 3D brain scans, is now expanding globally to help find treatments for Alzheimer’s. This ground-breaking initiative will help develop a global online system to centralise and boost Alzheimer’s research initiatives. 

November 9, 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.