Monthly Archives: March 2006
Wordpress Widgets
I am looking forward to implementing WordPress Widgets. As in other cases, I am holding out on palying around a lot with the blog design for now, as I hold out for the next release of K2, which is widget ready.
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Nature Magazine: The future of scientific computing
Nature magazine has a complete issue on the future of computing. Many of the articles are free thanks to sponsorship from Microsoft, who also have their own 2020 report. The issue makes fascinating reading, and talks about some of the major challenges that we need to address using scientific computing.
The [...]
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Education extends to computational scientists too
I have recently discovered the blog at the Open Science Project, which I heartily recommend. As I was browsing through some of the earlier posts, I found a post discussing the lack of good software practises in scientific computing. From personal experience, both as a computational scientist myself and from seeing a [...]
Blind hamsters in past tense
Dr Rutledge Ellis-Behnke and co-workers have published a paper in PNAS (still waiting for the thing to show up on the PNAS website and on Pubmed), which has garnered a lot of press today. The team, which included scientists from MIT and Hong Kong University (Dr. Ellis-Behnke has a joint appointment), was able to [...]
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Grid Computing in Pharma – Bioinform (3/24/06)