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CERN and sustainability

• LHC Grid's Jamie Shiers discusses the sustainability challenges facing the Large Hadron Collider.

We are farmers, not hunter gatherers

• OMII-UK's Director, Neil CHue Hong, takes a look at the position that OMII-UK plays in the sustainability problem.

News in Brief

• A look at Taverna 2.0, the International Grid Summer School, OMII-UK's collaboration with ICT and Neil Chue Hong's appearance on the BBC World Service.

Step up for an iPod!

• Win an iPod at the AHM 2008.

Grid computing made Rapid

• Rapid is a new system for quickly and easily joining up disparate resources and creating a user interface.

Making the Grid invisible

• Open GRid Shell (OGRSH) make grids easier to use by exploiting a paradigm already familiar to most users: the file system.

Bioinformatics, e-Science and the Grid: a symbiotic relationship

• As the first in a series of articles focusing on different aspects of e-Research, we asked myGrid’s Katy Wolstencroft for a précis on Bioinformatics.

GSoC students make significant contributions to OMII-UK software

• OMII-UK’s first year as a mentoring organisation for the Google Summer of Code has led to a number of improvements in OMII-UK's software.

Meeting the Audi challenge

• At a recent workshop hosted by Audi, IT Innovation demonstrated to major automotive companies and technology suppliers how GRIA and OGSA-DAI can help support collaborative product design.

Expert advice on open source

• OSS Watch is a JISC-funded advisory service that can answer your questions on the use of open-source software, its distribution and development.

Uptake of e-Infrastructure

• Investment in UK e-Infrastructure services has helped to build computing and data resources that underpin a wide range of research activities. Increasing the uptake of these services even further is the task of the e-Uptake project.

Applying grid technologies to the business world

• The BEinGRID (Business Experiments in Grid) project is funded by the European Commission to develop components that meet the business needs of Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs) across Europe.

e-Research opens up nineteenth-century texts

• The latest e-Research techniques are being applied to help scholars find materials within the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE).