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| Date | Name of newspaper, radio station or TV channel |
Abstract |
|---|---|---|
| March 2008 |
eStrategies Projects - Celebrating Research and Development in Europe, issue number 3, British Publishers |
An article titled "BalticGrid set to expand EU e-Infrastructure" by Ake Edlund |
| October 2007 |
Science popularization Journal “Mokslas ir gyvenimas” (Science and Life), Lithuania |
An article titled "Science and Organized Civil Society" by Z. R. Rudzikas. In the article, dedicated to the 50-th anniversary of the main Lithuanian science popularization Journal “Mokslas ir gyvenimas” (Science and Life) Z. R. Rudzikas describes the present situation in education and science in Lithuania, underlines the role of international cooperation, also describes the newest modern informational technologies, presents the LitGrid and BalticGrid projects as characteristic examples of such activities. |
| 5 July 2007 |
Popular science magazine “Horisont” |
An article titled "Maailma suurim teadusaparaat" ("The biggest scientific instrument of the world") by Andi Hektor, Kristjan Kannike. The arcticle gives an overview of LHC experiment at CERN and the Grids around the experiments. Also, the BalticGrid project is described in the article. |
| 29 June 2007 |
apollo.lv, db.lv, reitingi.lv, rtu.lv and radio SWH |
An article titled “Zinātniekus gatavos darbam ar Grid” ("Scientists will learn how to use Grid") by Jānis Riņķis. The article about the upcoming BalticGrid Summer School. The content of the school and the benefits were described shortly. |
| June 2007 |
Magazine “Sakaru pasaule” |
An article titled "Grid continues to develop" ("Grid tīkls turpina attīstīties") by Bruno Martuzāns. The article reviewed the Latvian Grid day event which took place on 24 April 2007 in Riga and was organised by IMCS UL. The most important speeches and authors were mentioned, many pictures were published. |
| 23 April 2007 |
prcentrs.lv, reitingi.lv, fails.lv, boot.lv, tehnika.delfi.lv, tvnet.lv | An article titled “Zinātnieku atbalstam prezentēs GEANT un Grid iespējas” ("GEANT and Grid possibilities presented to support scientists") by Jānis Riņķis. A press release was written about the upcoming GEANT and Grid Info day event. It focused on the upgrade of the GEANT connectivity and the main user of that – Latvian Grid clusters. |
| 12 March 2007 |
Journal “Mokslas ir technika” |
An article titled "LitGrid presentation" by A. Kačeniauskas and D.Mažeika. The gave an overview of LitGrid and BalticGrid projects. Grid computing resources in Lithuania are overviewed. Applications and results achieved using Grid computing infrastructure are discussed. |
| March 2007 |
The LAS book: “The Activity of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in 2006” |
The book by Z. R. Rudzikas. gave an overview of two very successful IT projects LitGrid and BalticGrid financed by Lithuanian and EU. Lithuanian Academy of Sciences has successfully integrated a large number of universities and research institutes to learn about these technologies and usage for the solving complex scientific problems. |
| March 2007 |
Magazine “Sakaru pasaule” |
An article titled "Latvijas akadēmiskais datortīkls – Eiropas sastāvdaļa" ("Latvian academic network – European component") by Jānis Ķikuts and Rihards Balodis. The article gave an overview about 7FP opportunities, situation in Latvia regarding the academic networking and its users, including grid, the most demanding users. The overview of the 65th conference of the University of Latvia were also given, where for the first time a grid dedicated section was organised. |
| 7 Feb 2007 |
Dziennik Polski | An article titled "Grid laczy"
("Grid unites") by M. Nowy was published in the Cracow-area daily "Dziennik Polski". The article gave a short description of Grid technology and the reasons for its use. The process of creating the Grid in Krakow
was also presented.
Professor Michal Turala (of BalticGrid) was quoted together with Zofia Mosurska, Henryk Pałka and Tomasz Szepieniec. The article also mentioned the BalticGrid
initiative and its goals. The plans for the next project with other partners (from Belarus, Ukraine and Russia) were also introduced. |
| 9.01.2007 |
Newspaper “Inžinerija” |
An article about LitGrid project by D. Mažeika, A. Kačeniauskas. Article in the newspaper “Inžinerija” gives an overview of LitGrid and BalticGrid projects. Results of applications achieved using Grid computing infrastructure are disscused shortly. |
| 7.01.2007 |
“The Scientific Lithuania” – the newspaper of Lithuanian scientists |
An article titled "The first BalticGrid birthday" by G. Tautvaišienė, E. Tamulienė, Š. Mikolaitis. The main idea of the article is to tell about experience, which was collected through all the year of project lifetime. Also it is really important to talk about the successful examples of Grid usage by Lithuanian scientists in many fields of science: atomic, particle, nuclear, physics and astrophysics. |
| January 2007 |
Magazine “Next” |
An article titled “Tīkls uzvar datoru” (Network wins computer) byJānis Riņķis. It was a general article about the concept of Grid, the Grid infrastructure in Latvia and the opportunities it is offering to the scientists and others. |
| 5.12.2006 |
Newspaper “Vakara Ziņas” (“Evening News”) |
An article titled "Vai dators gatavosies eksāmeniem arī Latvijas skolēna vietā?" ("Will the computer do exams instead of latvian pupil?") by Ieva Valtere. The article about usages of the Latvian Grid network, particularly about the Semantic web application, developed by Semti-Kamols project. The Latvian Grid infrastructure is described, other potential usages featured and future developments illustrated. |
| December 2006 |
Magazine “Sakaru pasaule” | An article titled "Latvijas Grid tīkls E-Zinātnes attīstībai" ("Latvian Grid network for the development of E-Science") by Bruno Martuzāns, Jānis Ķikuts. The main idea of the article is to inform about the status of the Latvian Grid network, what is already possible there and on which developments IMCS UL is working now. The need for fast infrastructure is outlined as well. |
| December 2006 |
Elektronika.lt, Vtv.lt, Nkm.lt, Technologijos.lt |
An article titled "The BalticGrid project celebrates first birthday"
by G. Tautvaišienė, E. Tamulienė and Š. Mykolaitis from ITPA. The main idea of the article was to tell about experience, which was collected through all the year of project lifetime. Also it was really important to talk about the successful examples of Grid usage by Lithuanian scientists in many fields of science: astrophysics, atomic, particle and nuclear physics. The paper was shared to the internet community by major internet magazines. |
| September 2006 |
Science & Life |
An article titled "GRID – the future of effective work" by G. Tautvaišienė, Š. Mykolaitis from ITPA. The article described Grid infrastructure and possibilities of usage for science. Also, article contained information about the First All Hands meeting in Vilnius 2006 April 26-28. Reader was introduced to the main ideas presented by representatives of Baltic Grid members and guests. |
| 30 September 2006 | Magazine “Mēs” (“We”) – addition to the newspaper “Neatkarīgā rīta avīze” (“Independent Morning newspaper”) |
An article titled "Tīkls uzvar superdatoru" (“Network wins supercomputer”) by Elīna Lidere, Jānis Riņķis from IMCS UL. A popular scientific article about the Grid technologies was published in the magazine “Mēs”. The Grid principles and terminology was explained, the BalticGrid project was mentioned and scientists were encouraged to learn more about Grid. All readers were encouraged to donate free resources of their computers for cancer and AIDS research. |
| 20 September 2006 |
Portal “Delfi” |
An article titled "Latvijas zinātnieki apgūst pasaules tehnoloģijas" ("Latvian scientists acquire world technologies") (page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4) by Jānis Riņķis, Katrīna Sataki from IMCS UL. A popular scientific article about the Grid technologies was published in the portal Delfi. The Grid principles and terminology was explained, the BalticGrid project was popularized and scientists were encouraged to learn more about Grid. Also the Grid Open Day was advertised and readers were invited to participate. |
| July 2006 |
Journal “Spectrum” |
An article titled "LitGRID – network of parallel and distributed computing" by A. Juozapavičius, D. Mažeika from Vinius University. Article in the popular journal of Vilnius University “Spectrum” gave an overview of parallel and distributed computing in Lithuania. Lithuanian national grid LitGRID and BaltiGRID projects were presented and main goals and ideas of the projects were given. |
| 6 July 2006 |
Newspaper “Mokslo Lietuva” (Scientific Lithuania) |
An article titled "GRID – the future of effective work"
by G. Tautvaišienė, Š. Mykolaitis from ITPA. The article described the
Grid infrastructure and possibilities of its usage for science.
Also, article contained information about the First All Hands meeting
held in Vilnius on April 26-28, 2006. Reader was introduced to the main
ideas presented at the conference by Baltic Grid members and guests. |
| 8 June 2006 |
Elektronika.lt, Vtv.lt, Takas.lt | An article titled "GRID – the future
of effective work" by G. Tautvaišienė, Š. Mykolaitis from ITPA. The
main topic of the article was to show the Grid technology as a powerful
and very useful tool for the scientific research, to present the future
of computing and to describe projects that currently are in progress in
Lithuania. The paper also reflected the BalticGrid First All-Hands meeting. |
| May 2006 |
Newspaper “Universitas Vilnensis” |
An article titled "LitGRID – network of parallel and distributed computing" by A. Juozapavičius, M. Marfinaitė, D. Mažeika from ITPA. Article gave an overview of parallel and distributed computing in Lithuania. Lithuanian national grid LitGRID and BaltiGRID projects were presented and main goals and ideas of the projects were given. |
| May 2006 |
Kompiuterija |
An article titled "Distributed and parallel calculations already in Lithuania" by A. Juozapavicius, S. Lapienis, J. Tamuliene from ITPA. The target of the article was to exhibit Grid technology as a powerful and very useful tool for the scientific research. It was described why the quantum chemical research is important in the field of nano technology; what possibilities have researches; why it is important to have powerful computers. Advantages of Grid technology were presented and exhibited on the example of its present day implementations in Lithuania. |
| May 2006 | Forum Akademickie | An article by M. Nowina-Konopka (and Michal Turala from IFJPAN) titled "GRID komputerowy – nowe narzędzie dla nauki i zastosowań" (in Polish) in which a brief explanation of the Grid concept is given and major European Grid projects are presented. Several examples of grid applications are described, in particular the particle physics case, including the structure, organisation and operations of the world-wide LHC Grid Collaboration. |
| April 2006 |
Magazine “Sakaru pasaule” | The article titled "Latvian Grid network established" (page 1, page 2) by Jānis Ķikuts, Bruno Martuzāns (IMCS UL). |
| April 2006 | Physicist’s News (Supplement of Lithuanian Journal of Physics) |
An article titled "Distributed and parallel calculations already in Lithuania" by A. Juozapavicius, S. Lapienis, J. Tamuliene from ITPA. The target of the article was to exhibit Grid technology as a powerful and very useful tool for the scientific research. It was described why the quantum chemical research is important in the field of nano technology; what possibilities have researchers; why it is important to have powerful computers. Advantages of Grid technology were also presented and exhibited on the example of its present day implementations in Lithuania. |
| 26 Apr 2006 |
Elekronika.lt | An article titled "Paskirstytieji ir lygiagretūs skaičiavimai jau Lietuvoje (eng. Distributed and parallel computing already in Lithuania)" by A. Juozapavičius, S.Lapienis, J. Tamulienė from ITPA. The article gave an overview of parallel and distributed computing in Lithuania: demands of the users, computational resources and etc. Lithuanian national grid LitGRID and BaltiGRID projects wee presented, main goals and publications of the projects are given. Article also gave a summary of intermediate results of the grid projects and problems that arrived in this period. |
| 20 Mar 2006 |
LETA (Latvian National News Agency) |
An announcement titled "Grid
technologies also in Latvia" (made by Baiba Kaskina, Inara Opmane form
IMCS UL) was presented in the biggest National News Agency (LETA). It
was about BalticGrid project and Grid Open Day in Vilnius. |
| 18 Jan 2006 | Lithuanian radio |
A short radio presentation about
BalticGrid and science made by Sarunas Mikolaitis from ITPA in the
program “Age of Knowledge” (Ziniu Amzius) of the Lithuanian national
radio's 1rst channel. |
| 9 Jan 2006 | Elekronika.lt, Takas.lt |
An article by Sarunas Mykolaitis from ITPA, titled “The parallel computing network of Baltic countries”. It contains general introduction and description of the BalticGrid idea. |
| 9 Jan 2006 | EGEE Newsletter | Information on start of the new
project - BalticGrid - and report on the BG kick-off meeting in Cracow
has been included in the January issue of the EGEE Newsletter. |
| January 2006 |
Journal "Mokslas ir technika" (Science & Technique), Elekronika.lt | In the article titled "Grid technologies are coming to Lithuania"
by Andrius Bernotas the background, aims and some facts about the
BalticGrid project are presented to the general public. Two black and
white illustrations depict the geographical distribution of involved
institutions in Lithuania and the Lithuanian delegation together with
the project leader and his assistant at the kick-off meeting in Krakow. |
| 27 Dec 2005 |
Eesti Raadio (ER) |
The summary of the year 2005 made by Andi Hektor (NICPB): the main scientific news, the new technology projects, the Grid etc. |
| December 2005 |
Magazine “Sakaru pasaule” |
The article titled "Baltic Grid project connects Latvian scientists to the European network" (page 1, page 2)
by Jānis Ķikuts, Bruno Martuzāns (IMCS UL) describes how the Grid
infrastructure will be developed in Latvia and who the potential users
are. It contains introduction about the significance of the Grid,
information about the BalticGrid project and particularly about the
role of IMCS UL. |
| 21 Nov 2005 | IT w Krakowie | The "IT w Krakowie"
online journal published an article by Pawel Plaszczak describing the
aims and structure of the BalticGrid project and focusing on the
participation of Polish scientists in this undertaking. The journal
also included a note on the Cracow Grid Workshop and presented the
principal topics of this year's edition. |
| 19 Nov 2005 | Dziennik Polski | On 19 November 2005 the Cracow-area daily "Dziennik Polski"
published an article on Grid computing titled "Komputery lacza sie"
("Computers unite"). The article detailed the Cracow Grid Workshop 2005
as well as the participation of the local scientific community in
European Grid research projects such as CrossGrid, K-WfGrid and EGEE.
Professor Michal Turala (of BalticGrid) was quoted along with dr Marian
Bubak (of K-WfGrid). The article also directly mentioned the BalticGrid
initiative and its goals, describing the BG kickoff conference held in
Cracow in conjunction with CGW'05. |
| November 2005 |
Fizikų žinios, Nr. 29 (2005) | The article "World year of physics marches through contents" by Z. R. Rudzikas from ITPA was written in order to commemorate the World Year of physics declared by ENESCO and United Nations. New tendencies in science, enlargement of the European Union, new technologies, the role of information technologies, international co-operation. Illustration of these new tendencies is presented on the example of Baltic Grid and Litgrid projects. Life long learning, new possibilities to solve very complex physical and mathematical problems, using newest computing methods, systems and grids are described. |
