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A Survey of the Practice of Computational Science

A Survey of the Practice of Computational Science

Computing plays an indispensable role in scientific research. Presently, researchers in science have different problems, needs, and beliefs about... Read more

18 November, 2011
Semantic Web Services for Ocean Knowledge Management

Semantic Web Services for Ocean Knowledge Management

The authors present a web-services based e-research platform to support scientific research about oceans and marine life. The featured Platform for Ocean Knowledge... Read more

26 July, 2011
ROBUST: Reliable Overlay Based Utilisation of Services and Topology for Emergency MANETs

ROBUST: Reliable Overlay Based Utilisation of Services and Topology for Emergency MANETs

Emergency services and networks are an emerging area of scientific research. During an emergency scenario such as forest fires, earthquakes, tsunamis and... Read more

13 February, 2011
ROARS: A Scalable Repository for Data Intensive Scientific Computing

ROARS: A Scalable Repository for Data Intensive Scientific Computing

As scientific research becomes more data intensive, there is an increasing need for scalable... Read more

1 January, 2011
Towards Long Term Data Quality in a Large Scale Biometrics Experiment

Towards Long Term Data Quality in a Large Scale Biometrics Experiment

Quality of data plays a very important role in any scientific research. In this paper the authors present some of the challenges that... Read more

1 January, 2011
Moving From Grid to Cloud Computing: The Challenges in an Existing Computational Grid Setup

Moving From Grid to Cloud Computing: The Challenges in an Existing Computational Grid Setup

Today's scientific research is much based on large-scale numerical calculations, data analysis and... Read more

1 December, 2010
Research of High Performance Computing With Clouds

Research of High Performance Computing With Clouds

HPC is most commonly associated with computing used for scientific research nowadays, which always uses supercomputers and computer clusters. Cloud computing a... Read more

15 August, 2010
A Mechanism for Propagation of Semantic Annotations of Multimedia Content

A Mechanism for Propagation of Semantic Annotations of Multimedia Content

Scientific research is producing and consuming large volumes of multimedia data at an... Read more

1 August, 2010

Nvidia takes its GPU to the enterprise cloud

...follow-up to Fermi, which delivered computational GPUs used in supercomputers for scientific research. Cuda and Kepler-based products will continue to put GPU-accelerated... Read more

16 May, 2012 by Simon Bisson

China builds world's fastest supercomputer

...Liu, chief of National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, in the statement. "The scientific research that is now possible with a system of this scale is... Read more

29 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
MosaLingua: Learn French quickly with SRS Memorization (English - French) 3.4

MosaLingua: Learn French quickly with SRS Memorization (English - French) 3.4

...MosaLingua uses the Spaced Repetition System, the product of several years of scientific research (check out the video on mosalingua.com)- Calculates review dates for... Read more

3 May, 2012

New photon qubit generator 1000x faster than rivals

...the National Science Foundation (NSF), and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR Read more

19 April, 2012

Australia's CSIRO nets £142m in Wi-Fi settlement

...in the US concerning its patented Wi-Fi technology. The country's scientific research agency reached the settlement with multiple technology companies in the US... Read more

2 April, 2012

£3m project seeks to define privacy for EC

...MORI (UK), the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the Eötvös Károly Institute (Hungary), and the... Read more

23 March, 2012
CERN drafts in cloud to handle data loads

CERN drafts in cloud to handle data loads

...designed to kick-start the European cloud computing industry by carrying out scientific research in the cloud.Data from Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments will... Read more

14 March, 2012 by Nick Heath

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