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		<title>Nanotechnology, Alternate Energy and Virtual Screening&#8230;oh my!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was indeed very pleasant to visit the Stanford campus last week; I had a chance to see familiar faces, as well as new ones, amongst the attendees at the workshop, “Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Experiment: Which Theoretical Approaches Are Best Suited To Solve Real Problems In Nanotechnology and Biology”
There were several invited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/03/nanotechnology-alternate-energy-virtual-screeningoh/</link>
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		<title>How many modelers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How many of “us” are out there? I mean how many people doing modeling and simulation? I’d really like to know, ideally broken down by discipline, such as Materials Science vs Life Science, and quantum, classical and mesoscale.
Alas, there are preciously few statistics on that, so when I read in the Monthly Update (Feb 2010) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/03/modelers/</link>
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		<title>Making Sense of the Cloud for Science:Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Business Issues in the Cloud
In the first part of this series, we discussed the basic collection of cloud offerings and what type of value they provide to IT, Developers, and Customers.  In this post, we’ll focus more on the business issues when leveraging the cloud.
One of the biggest hurdles leveraging Cloud Services is around securing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/02/making-sense-cloud-sciencepart-2/</link>
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		<title>Spectroscopy: Where Theory Meets the Real World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most successful uses of quantum mechanical modeling methods is to predict spectra. These methods are capable of yielding good predictions of UV/Visible, NMR, Infrared, Raman, THz, and EELS (electron energy loss spectroscopy) to name just a few. Spectroscopy (according to Wikipedia) is the &#8220;study of the interaction between radiation and matter as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/02/theory-meets-real-world/</link>
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		<title>Making Sense of the Cloud for Science:    Part 1 continued</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I last left you with a list of terms and examples surrounding the term &#8220;cloud computing;&#8221; now it&#8217;s time for a little context.  Utility Computing, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) provides a customer with the ability to spin up new machines on-demand.  From the customer side, you don’t care what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/02/making-sense-cloud-science-part-1-continued/</link>
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		<title>Making Sense of the Cloud for Science: Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cloud Technologies – A Primer
The scientific community is seeing an explosion of outsourcing, collaboration, massive data production and consumption, and financial pressures.  Driven by these challenges, Research &#38; Development Information Technology (R&#38;D IT) and even the scientists themselves are looking to the potential of Cloud Computing to enable an increase in science innovation and allow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/02/making-sense-cloud-science-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Welcome! The Discovery Studio Doors are Wide Open.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new year, a new website, and a new mechanism to support our users!
We have just launched an initiative to help scientists around the world with support for Discovery Studio and its integration with Pipeline Pilot through the New Discovery Studio Open Hour!
Discovery Studio Open Hour is an open session hosted by an Accelrys scientist [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/02/discovery-studio-doors-wide-open/</link>
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		<title>Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference Wrap-up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2009 Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference blasted off like a rocket with John Crowley’s  keynote, “When Drug Research is Personal.”  His family’s struggle is the inspiration for the motion picture Extraordinary Measures.  It was a profoundly moving experience to witness this father’s story of his family’s search for a cure for Pompe disease.  This journey eventually [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/02/molecular-medicine-triconference-wrapup/</link>
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		<title>Calling DFT to Order</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the most interesting developments in density functional theory (DFT) in recent years is the emergence of the so-called &#8220;Order-N&#8221; methods. What&#8217;s that mean? Quantum chemists and physicists classify the computational cost of a method by how rapidly it scales with the number of electrons (or the number of molecular orbitals.) This can get into a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.accelrys.com/2010/02/dft_to_order/</link>
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		<title>Welcome to the New Accelrys.com!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we think you would probably agree…it was time for a re-model.  We’re excited to open the doors to the new and improved Accelrys.com.


In addition to a new look and feel, we think you’ll find it easier and faster to locate information.  We’ve organized content by a number of different categories – by Area of [...]]]></description>
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