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Dear SekeRob and Sgt.Joe,
thanks for reminding us! This is actually a good question - we'll check back with the IBM/WCG team to see what the status is on this one. This feature was definitely in an advanced testing stage a while ago but we are not sure what happened to it. We'll keep you posted once we find out. Best wishes Your Harvard CEP team |
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Richard Mitnick
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That quote from Dr Foran, I live near the Cancer Institute of New Jersey, I carry a copy of the article in our local newspaper about his project in my brief case. I have donated computer equipment to the Institute.
----------------------------------------So, a special thanks for putting up that piece. |
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Sorry for the interruption in updates – the Materials Research Society (MRS) Fall Meeting here in Boston was great but also a very busy time for us, so we didn’t get around to doing posts here on the research logs. Now we have a good bit of catching up to do – let’s start with Alan’s talk (#QQ1.05) on Monday in the Materials Informatics session which was really nice.
http://www.mrs.org/f12-program-qq/ |
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Johannes talk at MRS was on Wednesday in the Symposium on “Next-Generation Polymer-based Organic Photovoltaics”. You can find all the details here:
http://www.mrs.org/f12-program-o/ |
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During the MRS we also cracked the barrier of 13,000 years of computing time – how cool is that!?
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewProject.do?projectShortName=cep2 |
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Something light for a snowy Sunday to remind everyone that science really is fun.
http://xkcd.com/1082/ |
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Another story which we did not mention last week: We had a big blackout in Cambridge on Thursday evening for a few hours. Lucky for us, our hardware was not affected and the power-outage did not interfere with CEP operations. But it was a rather eerie atmosphere on campus...
http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/11/29/ns...glkOagAFw8w9bK/story.html http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusett...l?camp=obnetwork&pg=1 http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x16...Power-outage-in-Cambridge http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x11...n-Cambridge#axzz2DuYYuAJM |
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We had a visit from Jarvist Frost yesterday. He is a postdoc in Jenny Nelson’s group at Imperial College London – one of the important players in the field of organic photovoltaics – and he gave a very interesting seminar titled “Computational Design of Materials for Organic Photovoltaics”. There is a lot of overlap between his work and the Clean Energy Project. It’s always nice to see that people agree that computational screening and design is a valuable way to help make this technology work.
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/jarvist.frost02 |
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We are now getting ready to add Laszlo’s experimental OPV/OE data collection to CEPDB. We call this data compilation the “OE12 set” and it is a massive expansion of our earlier “OE11 set”. The data model in the database backend is already updated and Laszlo is in charge of developing a user portal. The idea of that portal is to give experimentalists a platform to upload their own data. That will improve the visibility of their results and their accessibility to the community. The concept is similar to that of the protein databank (PDB) in the bio community. In CEP we use the data for our calibration and parametrization schemes.
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 That sounds like a great way to improve the utility of the CEP database. Encouraging other researchers to develop the portal into the database will almost certainly result in a more useful portal and advertise it to a larger community.Lawrence |
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