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<description>GridBriefings summarise in non-technical language key reports  and issues from European e-infrastructure projects.</description>
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<title><![CDATA[Horizon 2020]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How Horizon 2020 affects e-infrastructures, virtual research environments and coordinating activities, and the opportunities it brings in allowing science to work more closely with industry and wider society.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-26-HorizonWeb.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:21:28 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The Security Issue]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Passwords, certificates, cloud and security]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-25-Security-F02.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:01:32 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Big data]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In November 2012, Mikko Tuomi of the University of Hertfordshire and Guillem Anglada-Escude of the University of Go?ttingen announced the discovery of a new ?Super-Earth? ? a rocky planet five times larger than ours ? orbiting around the habitable zone of its parent star, where surface water would be liquid. They did this by analysing old data sets using new methods. This discovery demonstrates the importance of keeping and curating data so it can be reused later. But as science continues to produce a deluge of data, is keeping it all even viable ? and will a future researcher from a different or even completely new field be able to understand it? This challenge has led to the concept of ?Big Data?.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-24-Big-Data.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:07:43 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transferring Technology and Knowledge]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Transfer of ideas, technology and people from the e-science world into industry is a big topic. There are challenges and pitfalls for those wanting to commercialise ideas that have been developed in an academic setting. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-23-technology-knowledge.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 13:20:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Open Data,Open Science]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Data: unavoidably expensive?
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, falling costs of integrated circuits meant the computer was making a transition from being a tool available to only the very few to one available to the many. As the potential for computers to be used to create, store and transmit ideas and information became apparent, technological evangelist Stewart Brand, publisher of The Whole Earth Catalog, identified a duality in the nature of digital data: ?Information wants to be free. And information wants to be very expensive.?]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-22-OpenScience08.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 11:57:23 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Visualisation]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The open data revolution, driven by a growing number of conscientious researchers and enlightened academic publishers, is making
more data available to scientists and the public at large than ever before. Alone and without context, this mass of data can be a daunting
deluge of numbers. Visualisation helps us not only to understand the conclusions of research, but transmits ideas across disciplines and
cultural boundaries, creating a collaborative infrastructure that actually improves the quality of science being done. Visualisation may also
help drive home the social and economic consequences of research, for example in
understanding global environmental change.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-21-Visualisation-v07.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:24:58 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Research Networks: global connectivity]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[As science becomes increasingly global and collaborative, researchers? dependence on fast and reliable data and communication links continues to grow. Research and Education (R&E) networks are designed to meet these demands, providing high-speed and reliable internet links to support applications and experiments crucial to research.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-20-Network-Final-cc.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:39:25 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Desktop grids: Connecting everyone to science]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Today?s personal computers are powerful but,
most of the time, a large proportion of their
computational power is left unused. A desktop
grid takes this unused capacity, no matter what
its location, and puts it to work solving scientific
problems. With over 1 billion desktop computers
in use, desktop grids can offer a low cost, readily
available computing resource for scientists while
allowing citizens across the world to contribute
to scientific research. Together with grids and
supercomputers, desktop grids can be a useful
complement to the e-Infrastructure landscape.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-19-DesktopGrid-w.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:59:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Asia-Pacific Special Issue]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Covering countries such as Australia, Vietnam, Japan and Indonesia, the Asia-Pacific region is both geographically vast and culturally diverse. But while the Asia-Pacific is home to a number of languages, cultures and peoples, its countries face similar challenges, such as natural disasters, climate change and connectivity to the rest of the world. Global e-Infrastructures, such as networks and grids, are already helping scientists in the Asia-Pacific contribute to science on a world-wide stage, in areas such as natural disaster modelling and life sciences. By further exploiting these infrastructures, scientists from the region can collaborate, share and store data, and achieve far more than they could alone.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-18-Asia-Web2.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-18-Asia-Web2.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:44:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Cloud computing: What?s on the horizon?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Cloud computing is making the revolutionary collaboration models of today?s European e- Infrastructure more broadly accessible and applicable. Clouds can allow businesses, governments and educational institutes to access services and data on demand, and pay for what they need at the point of use. For those who need large amounts of computing power for short periods of time, the cloud appears to be the perfect solution, as well as a useful complement to existing e-Infrastructures.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-17-Cloud-Web.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-17-Cloud-Web.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:57:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Supercomputing: Empowering research]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Computer simulations have evolved as an essential part of scientific research, complementing theory and experiment. Scientists and engineers use simulations when problems are complex, or experiments are too dangerous, expensive, or impossible to carry out. Today supercomputing has simulated rat brains, tested engineering structures and modelled global warming. Investment in these technologies can lead to real economic benefits while ensuring researchers remain internationally competitive.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-16-SuperComp-HD.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Mapping the e-Infrastructure Landscape]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Today the World Wide Web provides information for people across the globe but, no single networked system provides a similar service for researchers to help them access, share, store and process large amounts of data. Ways in which Europe?s e-Infrastructures can work together to ensure a more integrated service.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/EST-Briefing-15-Landscape-Newt.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Annual report 2009 - 2010]]></title>
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<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GT-GridBrief-Annual-LowRes02.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[eLearning and grid computing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Computers and the Internet have transformed our homes and businesses, and have the potential to do the same for education and training. Known as eLearning, using such technologies can be as simple as accessing a school timetable online, through to running virtual communities for sharing and creating knowledge. This briefing looks at the issues surrounding the topic, and how grid technologies and Europe?s e-Infrastructures can play a part in this new way of learning.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/gridbriefing-eLearning-and-grid-computing.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Future needs of the ESFRI projects]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[In April 2010 the European e-Infrastructure Forum released a report that examined the requirements of the ESFRI-projects and outlined the services and resources that the e-Infrastructure community can offer. This briefing summarises that report and the issues it raises.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing-Future_needs_ESFRI_projects.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing-Future_needs_ESFRI_projects.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The European Grid Infrastructure (EGI)]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[On 1 May 2010, EGI took over the coordination of European grid infrastructure. Through the previous DataGrid and Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE) projects, researchers across the globe reaped the benefits of grid technologies. Now EGI.eu, the organisation established to coordinate EGI, hopes to continue this trend. A discussion of the opportunities and challenges EGI faces on the road to a sustainable future.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_The_European_Grid_Infrastructure.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_The_European_Grid_Infrastructure.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The data-centric age]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[It is estimated that more scientific data will be generated in the next five years than in the history of mankind. But while more data provides opportunities for new discoveries and fields of inquiry it has created problems with regards to storage, curation, access and analysis. This GridBriefing provides a snapshot of the most pertinent topics resulting from the so-called data deluge.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing-the-data-centric-age.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing-the-data-centric-age.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Digitising culture: Grids and eHumanities]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The era of eHumanities has arrived. No longer consigned to manuscript, memory or museums, digitisation is transferring the humanities to our computers. ?Our original sources are scattered in many ways: historical documents in archives and libraries, works of art in museums, archaeological finds in ancient sites, disappearing languages on the tongues of native speakers,? says Peter Doorn, director of the proposed humanities infrastructure, DARIAH.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/Grids-and-eHumanities.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/Grids-and-eHumanities.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transferring technology: Grids in Business]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Grid technology is used in a number of differing areas - from biomedicine to geosciences. However grid technologies can also be used outside the academic arena - helping organisations to provide enhanced processing power, access distributed resources and form stronger collaborations. A look at how the technology and expertise created by the grid community can be used in the commercial world.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_transferring_technology.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_transferring_technology.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The future of Healthcare: eHealth & Grid Computing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[From a patient?s heart monitor to electronic health records, ICT has integrated itself into all aspects of healthcare with grid computing playing a key role. A closer look at how eHealth and grids are shaping the future of healthcare.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/ehealth.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/ehealth.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[A Greener Way? Grids and Green Computing]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing us in the 21st century and, across Europe, efforts are being made to cut down on energy usage and carbon emissions. How grid computing and green ICT can help us reach the EU's green targets by 2012.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/gridsandgreen.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/gridsandgreen.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Annual report 2008 - 2009]]></title>
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<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/gridbriefing-annual-08-09.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/gridbriefing-annual-08-09.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[The future of innovation: developing Europe's ICT einfrastructures]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What do Europe?s ICT infrastructures look like now? What needs to happen over the next ten years to ensure we remain competitive? Summarizing the achievements and challenges of European e-infrastructures for e-science.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/einfrastructures.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/einfrastructures.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Facing the skills shortage: attracting more women to ICT]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How can we encourage more women into Information and Communication Technologies? Analyzing the situation of women in ICT and ways in which we can increase their number.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_Facing_the_skills_shortage_attracting_more_women_to_ICT.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_Facing_the_skills_shortage_attracting_more_women_to_ICT.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grids and clouds]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What?s the difference between a grid and a cloud? How can these technologies interact? Investigating the role of grids and clouds in providing the extra computing power needed for European innovation.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_Grids_and_clouds.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_Grids_and_clouds.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Grid Initiative]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What is the European Grid Initiative? What does it hope to achieve? Summarizing the blueprint for EGI: towards a sustainable long-term European grid infrastructure.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_European_Grid_Initiative.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_European_Grid_Initiative.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What is a grid?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[How do grids work? Why are they useful? Introducing grid computing with case studies of its application to high energy physics, fusion energy, malaria control and more. ]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_What_is_a_grid.pdf</link>
<guid>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_What_is_a_grid.pdf</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Grids and standardization]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[What are grid standards? How is the grid community meeting the standards challenge? Examining the standards debate and the need (or otherwise) for grid standards.]]></description>
<link>http://www.e-sciencetalk.org/briefings/GridBriefing_Standardization.pdf</link>
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<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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