Friday, May 13, 2005

Distributed Computing: Science Online Special Collection

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"Science Magazine and its online Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment explore the new frontiers of scientific analysis being opened up by distributed and grid computing, in a collection of articles published with the magazine's 6 May 2005 issue. In a special section in Science, News features chart the expanded realms of scientific number crunching made possible by screen-saver-computing efforts of the type pioneered by SETI@home, and at attempts to map the Internet itself using the same kind of techniques. Viewpoint articles in the same issue focus on the scientific promise of efforts such as the Semantic Web and other projects to tie the world's scientific computing infrastructure together through a common lingua franca."

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