The DØ experiment faces many challenges enabling access to large datasets for physicists on four continents. The new concepts for distributed large scale computing implemented in DØ aim for an optimal use of the available computing resources while minimising the person-power needed for operation. The real live test of these concepts is of special interest for the LHC Computing GRID, LCG, which ...

Interoperable Grid monitoring has been a hot topic since many years (Wolski et al 1999, Michael and Philip 2002). Standardization efforts have been made by the Open Grid Forum with respect to monitoring architecture (Zanikolas et al 2005) and data schema. Grid middleware efforts towards interoperability include GRIP, which resulted in an interoperability layer between UNICORE and GT2, OSG, LCG ...

The huge success of the Internet encourages existing systems to evolve by using this technology. This paper presents the meta-CASE system JKogge which is designed like a CASE browser and integrates CASE and Internet technology.

: In this short commentary, we discuss the most important risk factors for liver cancer. One of the most striking risks is infection with hepatitis B and C viruses, leading to chronic hepatitis, which may later develop into hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The use of alcohol may lead to cirrhosis, which is scarring the liver, is associated with 30 a more increase in HCC and 10-20 times more incr...