Following the recent Nature article "Computational science: ... Error - why scientific programming does not compute" spawned by the Climategate affair, there's another interesting article titled "Changing software, hardware a nightmare for tracking scientific data" from the Nobel Intent blog on Ars Technica. Again, it is the pace of technological advance, so important for making new discoveries, which is also causing us to have to question if we can reproduce our past results.…
The GridPP website has just posted an overview of the Software Sustainability Institute.
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Cloud computing has gained a mainstream following. Sure, they might think that Saas, Paas and Laas are finalists in the Swedish version of the X-Factor, but that's not important. Unlike many new technologies, cloud computing has captured the public's imagination. Our latest post takes a look at what cloud computing got right.
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After 20 December 2010, it will not be possible to use NeSCForge to run your software project. If you are interested in migrating your software to another repository, the Software Sustainability Institute has prepared a number of guides to help. The guides are available on our guides web page.
NeSCForge was set up as a software repository for the UK e-Science community. This year, it was announced that NeSCForge would close due to a lack of funds. The shut down…
Four, two-and-a-half year research associate positions are being advertised by the Centre for Computational Science at UCL. Several of these positions are aligned with the new UCL Computational Life and Medical Sciences Network. The successful candidates will join a very active inter-disciplinary group, and will work in a range of fields from condensed matter physics and chemistry to life sciences and medicine.
For more information, visit the UCL website.
The two-day Innovation Forum will showcase the impact that the NGS has had on research in the UK, allow delegates to find out more about using the NGS in applied research, enable IT staff to find out how their institution can benefit from the NGS, and how you can contribute to and influence the future development of the NGS. There will also be updates on the wider international scene with updates from the European Grid community (EGI) and ESFRI projects.
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The Human Genetics department of the Leiden University Medical Centre has three vacancies in its Biosemantics and Bioinformatics groups. Applicants should be motivated by solving biological problems and committed to the use of emerging e-Science approaches.
The deadline for applications is 8 November 2010.
The autumn edition of EPCC News is now available online: download EPCC News.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the EPCC, the supercomputing centre based at the University of Edinburgh. The newsletter takes a look back over the centre's history. You can also read about EPCC's latest work, including research collaborations, visitor programmes and EPCC's MSC in High Performance Computing.
...on scientific data in Europe has been published. More on the blog.