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CERN Workshop Looks at Next-Gen Scientific Computing

Over at International Science Grid This Week, Andrew Purcell has posted a summary of the recent workshop on the IT requirements for the next generation research infrastructures held at CERN on February 1.

IT today is woven into the fabric of science and business; it’s an integral part of research, engineering and enterprise,” says Herbert Cornelius of Intel. He was speaking at the ‘IT requirements for the next generation of research infrastructures workshop’, held at CERN on Friday 1 February, 2013. The event brought together leading figures in the IT sector from both the industrial and academic research communities. Together, participants worked on outlining the IT requirements of the next generation of scientific research infrastructures in Europe, as well as discussing procurement plans and building a joint technology roadmap.

Slides and video from the event are now available at the workshop site. Read the Full Story.

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3D Printing an Open Source Electric Car

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What excites me about ZWheelz is the potential to improve our education system, environment, energy independence, and economy—all with what I like to call, one “EZ” project.

It all began when I built a plane from a kit, then saw the documentary, Who Killed The Electric Car?, and decided to build an electric car. Turns out, it functioned really well, and I began wondering: “Why aren’t there more electric vehicles on the road?”

 

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Tech Salaries ‘See Biggest Jump in a Decade’: Survey

Dice’s monthly count of IT listings shows New York and Silicon Valley as top markets, big data the top skill.

Linux Developers Working on Uniting Windows 8 Secure Boot Fixes

There are now two major ways to boot and install Linux on Windows 8 PCs, but soon they’ll only be a single unified method.

How To Integrate DropBox Into Thunar (Fedora 18/XFCE)

How To Integrate DropBox Into Thunar (Fedora 18/XFCE)

Thunar is the default file manager for XFCE desktops. While it is easy to integrate DropBox into Nautilus, the default file manager for GNOME, it is not so trivial for Thunar. This guide explains how to use DropBox with the Thunar file manager on a Fedora 18 XFCE desktop.

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Debian Is Still Being Made To Build With LLVM/Clang

Debian developers are still working on making the operating system compiler agnostic so that its packages can be built with LLVM/Clang and other compilers rather than continuing in a monogamist relationship with GCC.

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Wine 1.6: This Year With These Interesting Features

The Phoronix coverage so far from the Wine development track at FOSDEM 2013 includes Gaming On Wine: The Good and Bad Graphics Drivers, Support For Running Windows Apps On ARM With Wine, Wine-Mono Isn’t Too Fit For .NET, and Wine On Android Is Coming For Running Windows Apps. Another worthwhile Wine session was Alexandre Julliard’s keynote…

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Distribution Release: Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.02

Anke Boersma has announced the release of Chakra GNU/Linux 2013.02, the project’s brand-new series featuring the KDE 4.10 desktop: “Chakra 2013.02 ‘Benz’ (a code name that will follow the KDE 4.10 series) has been released. KDE 4.10 is about the most polished release KDE has put out…

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Vincent Untz Goes Over The Direction Of GNOME

Aside from all the Phoronix video recordings of the X.Org and Wine development rooms during the FOSDEM 2013 meeting last weekend in Brussels, Vincent Untz went over the direction of GNOME and whether the GNOME community has gone crazy…

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Forrester’s Top 15 Emerging Technologies to Watch

In its new research on emerging technologies, Forrester moves beyond the “big four” – cloud, mobile, social, and data – to see how those technologies will create platforms for future disruption. Brian Hopkins blogs about the new research and takes a closer look at the tech categories you’ll be thinking about in 2018 – and should be planning for now.