Blog Archive, May 2011
Blog Archive
May 2011
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Research from the coffee shop
May 09, 2011 | Ian Foster
As I pondered what tone to setting for this blog, I tried to put myself in the shoes of the professional researcher. While I’ve lived that life, the everyday life...
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Welcome!
May 09, 2011 | Ian Foster
Welcome to the Globus Online blog! On these pages we plan to present/discuss/debate a range of topics dear to the hearts of computational researchers: data movement, information sharing and collaboration,...
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May 2011 User of the Month: NERSC
May 11, 2011 | Paul Dave
We are very pleased to see so many of our users utilizing Globus Online to support their scientific research -- this week I heard one user had moved 6TB of...
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GO Behind the Scenes: Globus Online relies on Amazon's EC2
May 16, 2011 | Stuart Martin
I am delighted to write this inaugural post for "GO Behind the Scenes" -- our Dev column in the new Globus Online (GO) blog. Entries could come from any member...
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When Trivial Becomes Critical: File Transfer and its Role in Genomic Sequencing
May 19, 2011 | Brigitte Raumann
I think I can speak for most biologists when I say I never thought I would be worrying about file transfer. Compute power, yes. Storage space, maybe. But file transfer?...
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Getting a Bigger 'N' for Studies of Rare Conditions
May 25, 2011 | Lee Liming
I get a kick out of seeing "ordinary" information technologies make new kinds of science possible. For example, the ability to move and share digital data is a pretty mundane...