. . . "July/August 2005COLOURThe colour of the pastMathematical operations on an array of pixels, made easy by software such as Matlab, can reveal the surface of Venus and the world of pre-Revolutionary Russia, Ray Girvan discoversDEISAThe benefits of a virtual European supercomputerHermann Lederer reports on the DEISA Consortium, a major step towards an integrated European HPC infrastructureLIMSWhere Wa" .