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LeopoldS

Helix Nebula - Helix Nebula Vision - 0 views

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    The partnership brings together leading IT providers and three of Europe's leading research centres, CERN, EMBL and ESA in order to provide computing capacity and services that elastically meet big science's growing demand for computing power.

    Helix Nebula provides an unprecedented opportunity for the global cloud services industry to work closely on the Large Hadron Collider through the large-scale, international ATLAS experiment, as well as with the molecular biology and earth observation. The three flagship use cases will be used to validate the approach and to enable a cost-benefit analysis. Helix Nebula will lead these communities through a two year pilot-phase, during which procurement processes and governance issues for the public/private partnership will be addressed.

    This game-changing strategy will boost scientific innovation and bring new discoveries through novel services and products. At the same time, Helix Nebula will ensure valuable scientific data is protected by a secure data layer that is interoperable across all member states. In addition, the pan-European partnership fits in with the Digital Agenda of the European Commission and its strategy for cloud computing on the continent. It will ensure that services comply with Europe's stringent privacy and security regulations and satisfy the many requirements of policy makers, standards bodies, scientific and research communities, industrial suppliers and SMEs.

    Initially based on the needs of European big-science, Helix Nebula ultimately paves the way for a Cloud Computing platform that offers a unique resource to governments, businesses and citizens.
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    "Helix Nebula will lead these communities through a two year pilot-phase, during which procurement processes and governance issues for the public/private partnership will be addressed." And here I was thinking cloud computing was old news 3 years ago :)
Kevin de Groote

WordItOut - Transform your text into word clouds! - 4 views

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    Transform your text into word clouds! Word clouds are a fun way to show words, where the most important ones are bigger than the others. Make and share word clouds from any text with WordItOut!
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    WOW!!!!
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    Impressive. Really nice work!!!
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Francesco Biscani

Slashdot Technology Story | Is Cloud Computing the Hotel California of Tech? - 2 views

  • the cloud is still largely a one-way road into Web services, with closed data networks making it difficult to impossible to move data into competing services
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    also interesting is this article quote: "How big can the cloud get before it starts to rain?" http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/09/30/0152200/Amazons-Cloud-May-Provision-50000-VMs-a-Day
nikolas smyrlakis

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Scientists bring snow to Beijing - 2 views

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    Did you know about this Weather Modification Office? Promising or dodgy?
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    Yes. In China it happens apparently quite often that weather is regionally modified, e.g. in order to have good weather conditions during certain events (like olympics in Beijing). But also in other countries weather modification is applied, for reasons of agriculture, pollution, skiing, etc. Obviously, one wonders on the environmental impact of such an artificial cloud feeding process with silver iodide. I just googled, stumbling upon this report http://www.weathermodification.org/AGI_toxicity.pdf which published the result: no environmentally harmful effects...
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    and w.r.t. ur question: I mean different weather conditions which we experience locally (like droughts or other extreme weather events) are (often) due to large-scale/global climatic changes. Hence, cloud seeding just describes a local, short-term mitigation of these events. However, there is a geoengineering proposal (so climate modification) which also suggests to seed clouds above the sea (i.e. increase cloud coverage, e.g. by using seaspray as cloud condesation nuclei), thereby increasing the planetary albedo (Earth reflectance) and reducing the energy reaching the Earth surface. If this idea is promising or not, I couldn't judge upon, but for sure it is worthwhile to take a closer look at.
Francesco Biscani

T-Mobile Sidekick Disaster: Danger's Servers Crashed, And They Don't Have A Backup - 0 views

  • The fact that T-Mobile and/or Microsoft Danger don’t have a redundant backup is simply inexcusable, especially given the fact that the Sidekick is totally reliant on the cloud because it doesn’t store its data locally.
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    Some foreseen dangers of cloud computing become reality...
Annalisa Riccardi

Indoor clouds - 4 views

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    created by a Dutch artist :)
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    Any idea how?
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    It seems like he just recreates in the room the right combination of temperature and humidity and than with a fog machine he generates the cloud ... I thought he could be a nice candidate for the artist in residence :)
Annalisa Riccardi

Rapyuta: The RoboEarth Cloud Engine - 0 views

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    RoboEarth Cloud Engine now complements the RoboEarth knowledge database with computational capabilities and allows web services dedicated to robots
Isabelle Dicaire

Scientists Find Bacteria Survive at High Altitudes | Climate Central - 0 views

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    Bacteria found at 8-15 km altitude could play a much bigger role in cloud formation and precipitation than previously thought... According to this study bacteria represent around 20 % of the total atmospheric aerosols in their size range! They say it could also have implications for the spread of diseases...
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    20% ????
santecarloni

Pristine relics of the Big Bang spotted - physicsworld.com - 1 views

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    For the first time, astronomers have discovered two distant clouds of gas that seem to be pure relics from the Big Bang.
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    and one of them is in "leo" .... "This gas is of primordial composition, as it was produced during the first few minutes after the Big Bang." One gas cloud resides in the constellation Leo"
Dario Izzo

NASA Brings Earth Science 'Big Data' to the Cloud with Amazon Web Services | NASA - 3 views

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    NASA answer to the big data hype
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    "The service encompasses selected NASA satellite and global change data sets -- including temperature, precipitation, and forest cover -- and data processing tools from the NASA Earth Exchange (NEX)" Very good marketing move for just three types of selected data (MODIS, Landsat products) plus four model runs (past/projection) for the the four greenhouse gas emissions scenarios of the IPCC. It looks as if they are making data available to adress a targeted question (crowdsourcing of science, as Paul mentioned last time, this time climate evolution), not at all the "free scrolling of the user around the database" to pick up what he thinks useful, mode. There is already more rich libraries out there when it comes to climate (http://icdc.zmaw.de/) Maybe simpler approach is the way to go: make available the big data sets categorized by study topic (climate evolution, solar system science, galaxies etc.) and not by instrument or mission, which is more technical, so that the amateur user can identify his point of interest easily.
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    They are taking a good leap forward with it, but it definitely requires a lot of post processing of the data. Actually it seems they downsample everything to workable chunks. But I guess the power is really in the availability of the data in combination with Amazon's cloud computing platform. Who knows what will come out of it if hundreds of people start interacting with it.
Luís F. Simões

The Space Age, as recorded on human written history - 4 views

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    Google Books measurements of word frequencies on 15 million books (12% of all the books ever published). More about it in:  - Google Opens Books to New Cultural Studies - John Bohannon, Science 2010-12-17 - Slashdot: Google Books Makes a Word Cloud of Human History - http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info
Francesco Biscani

xkcd: The Cloud - 4 views

shared by Francesco Biscani on 09 Jun 11 - No Cached
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    Cloud computing explained.
ESA ACT

Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush ... - 0 views

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    Look it ain't just me going word cloud hungry, the whole world wants to do it, I even saw it on the BBC!
Francesco Biscani

NASA Nebula, Cloud Computing In a Container - 0 views

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    Open-source cloud computing platform from NASA... Nice!
Joris _

Dropbox's password nightmare highlights cloud risks - 5 views

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    fortunately I've never managed to use it properly...
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    lol cloud
jcunha

Cloud cities for Venus exploration - 3 views

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    Our friends from NASA have come out with a plan to the human exploration of Venus in the time that everyone is speaking about Mars.
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    Love the concept acronym, which pretty much says it all... Not sure which astronaut would fancy floating around in an atmosphere where clouds are made of sulphuric acid. Besides I don't see the point of a manned mission if one can't reach the surface.. tele-operation would be easy and so much cheaper.
Thijs Versloot

Watch uranium radiation inside a cloud chamber - 6 views

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    Ever wondered what radiation looks like? If you have, I bet you didn't think it would look as cool as this. This is a small piece of uranium mineral sitting in a cloud chamber, which means you can see the process of decay and radiation emission....
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    Once I saw a DIY spark chamber in LIP (CERN associated laboratory). It was the work of a bunch of BSc students, they made it all from scratch, so it seemed to be not that difficult to have one at home. Yet another project for the future 'Experimental Physics' stagiare maybe :)
jcunha

Microsoft research project puts cloud in ocean for the first time - 0 views

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    Microsoft project Natick deploys cloud servers inside a vessel under seawater. A cool story about crossing competences of different people around an innovative solution. "In my experience the trick to innovating is not coming up with something brand new, but connecting things we've never connected before, pairing different technology together."
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    the quote could come from ACT ...
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