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11 articles · Latest April 6, 2023

Patrick Bos·Apr 6, 2023

Ditching Docker Hub: serve research software with GHCR + Zenodo

Or pay the price… that Docker Hub may charge you Scrooge McDuck who throws a Docker container in the trash in the style of Disney… according to Stable Diffusion. As a researcher, a...

eScience Editorial Team·Nov 23, 2022

The Future of Research Software

By Michelle Barker (Research Software Alliance (ReSA)), Neil Chue Hong (Software Sustainability Institute UK), Maria Cruz (Dutch Research Council), Daniel S. Katz (National Center...

Hanno Spreeuw·Nov 23, 2020

eScience trends from ADASS 2020

eScience trends from ADASS 2020 Scaling up compute and storage resources are not going to be the biggest hurdles. 8 My general feeling about this conference What a delight ADASS (A...

Netherlands eScience Center·Jun 8, 2020

Evidence for the importance of research software

● Recognising the importance of software in research: Research Software Engineers (RSEs), a UK example — Study is a case study that discusses the current challenges faced by RSEs a...

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Netherlands eScience Center·Nov 28, 2019

Accelerating the search for dark matter

Astronomical observations show that roughly 80% of the mass of the universe is made up of dark matter, a material that cannot be directly observed because emits no light or energy....

Hanno Spreeuw·Oct 21, 2019

eScience trends from ADASS 2019

The 2019 Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis and Software Systems (ADASS, 353 participants) took place in Groningen between 6 and 10 October, 2019. The aim of this annual conf...

Atze van der Ploeg·Aug 14, 2018

why use an fpga instead of a cpu or gpu

The (dis)advantages of Field Programmable Gate Arrays Recently, Intel bought Altera, one of the largest producers of FPGAs. Intel paid a whopping $16.7 billion, making it their lar...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 11, 2018

the end of theory for earth sciences

“The end of theory.” This is the title of an article in Wired Magazine 10 years ago. No theory needed, the data deluge allows us to extract any knowledge by exploring data. This ne...

Patrick Bos·Jun 5, 2018

blobs, bumps, clouds and clusters

Statistical fluke or scientific evidence? Definitely a blob. Another earth-shattering discovery is on the horizon. Evidence was found for a new fundamental particle! The times we l...

eScience Editorial Team·Jul 17, 2017

an ambition for the global astronomical community

Making the data produced by the rejuvenated Westerbork Telescope more open for, and delivered faster to, the astronomical community Joeri van Leeuwen, Dutch astrophysicist, ASTRON...

eScience Editorial Team·Jun 21, 2017

what is the impact of visualization on science

Scientific visualization impacts all research disciplines. Understanding our past, dealing with the challenges of climate change, discovering dark matter, and analyzing human behav...