News archive for April 2007
BBC: A new kind of fire fighting
By Professor Jose Torero
The collapse of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 11 September 2001 was not directly caused by the impact of the two hijacked airliners but by the fires that followed.
New advances in the smart design and monitoring of buildings could mitigate future disasters and save many lives.
Today, with […]
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DEISA Training in Espoo, Finland
Espoo, Finland,
May 30 - June 1, 2007
The 4th DEISA training session will be held at CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland on the 30th May to the 1st of June, 2007. Scientists from all European countries and members of industrial organisations involved in high performance computing are invited to attend.
The training […]
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DEISA Symposium: Towards Petascale Computing in Europe
Munich, Germany,
May 21st - 22nd, 2007.
The 3rd DEISA Symposium will be held at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in Munich, Germany on the 21st and 22nd of May, 2007. This year, the DEISA Symposium focuses on the initiatives and strategies being deployed to enhance the outreach of high performance computing in Europe.
The […]
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