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Large Hadron Collider Grid: one year on

• The Large Hadron Collider may have experienced troubles over the last year, but CERN's Jamie Shiers tells us that things at CERN have been far from quiet.

News in Brief

• Mythology and sustainability, Successful Google Summer of Code, OMII-UK PALs: Hellos and Goodbyes, OGSA-DAI achieves new milestones, Big step forward for grid interoperability.

Software sustainability – together we’re stronger

• Neil Chue Hong, Director of OMII-UK, outlines OMII-UK's vision for ensuring software sustainability.

One giant leap for Taverna

• NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) created the first American satellite and are now using Taverna for their Web Services-based infrastructure

Crystal Structure Prediction and Condor – a match made in OMII-UK

• A group at UCL have a more reliable and versatile system than ever before for modelling drug characteristics thanks to a collaboration with OMII-UK.

Social simulation could help answer the difficult questions

• Social simulation might hold the key to answering difficult questions, such as 'where’s the best location in Oxford for a new hospital?'

The future of European grids

• EGEE's Danielle Venton discovers what the EGEE '09 delegates predict for the future of European grids.

OMII-UK principle investigator appointed e-Social Science National strategic Director

• Professor David De Roure, one of OMII-UK’s PIs, has been appointed to the new role of the Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) National Strategic Director of e-Social Science.

Shantenu Jha: it’s good to have PALs

• Shantenu Jha comments on his experience as an OMII-UK PAL.

OSCAR helps researchers by understanding chemistry

• We talk to the University of Cambridge's Peter Murray-Rust about his group's OSCAR software which is helping a number of prestigious organisation understand chemistry.