My friend Andi from TextGrid pointed me to WIRED MAGAZINE: Issue 16.07.

The Petabyte Age: Because More Isn't Just More — More Is Different: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/16-07/pb_i...

The End of Science: The Quest for knowledge used to begin with grand theories. Now it begins with massive amounts of data. Welcome to the Petabyte Age. [read more...]

The Chronicle of Higher Education published this article on the new NEH initiative on HPC: http://chronicle.com/free/2008/04/2580n.htm

"We are offering one million hours of high-performance computing," said Brett Bobley, director of the endowment's new Office of Digital Humanities.

Hi.

just found this great game produced by Cern Multimedia productions to educate people on the Grid: http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/AmaltheaWindows.zip

There is also a fascinating video: http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/animations/amalthea.rm

I did not know that working on Grids means saving the world.

OGSA-DAI is an extendable toolkit middleware to expose data resources to grids. These resources may be relational databases, XML-databases, or files - and extensions can be developed to permit OGSA-DAI to support additional resources (such as the Open Geospatial Consortium web services used by the geographical communities). [read more...]