Scientific software goes parallel

Most scientists do their data analysis using commercial software over which they have little control. Yet, to take advantage of the multi-core processors new computers ship with, algorithms must be designed to run in parallel.

Luckily, many of the more popular scientific software packages have gone parallel. Some even offer versions or toolboxes that manage clusters or grids. iSGTW scoured the world of scientific software for the latest information on parallelization in scientific software.

Read on to find out more!

Opinion

Grid security vulnerabilities: keeping out of the headlines

Just how far do you have to go to secure the grid?

Feature

Campus grids secret to productive grid sites

If campus grids are what make the most productive OSG sites tick, then how can we get more campus grid sites going? OSG investigated this very question in a recent workshop.

Link of the week

eScience and Google Summer of Code

This summer, 1000 student programmers from around the world will get paid by Google to work with mentors on an open source project. For this week’s link round-up, we’ve collected a list of participating grid, cloud, and science-related open source organizations.