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Article: Scientists plot international data grid
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- New Straits Times
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- October 2, 2003
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New Straits Times
10-02-2003
Scientists plot international data grid
Edition: Computimes; 2*
Section: Tech Hub
SCIENTISTS and researchers at two Chicago-area national labs, along with colleagues around the globe are building a supercomputer, which will link computers in a new way to harness most of the world's data.
Dubbed the international data grid, the grid will do on a more massive scale than what the Web did after it was launched.
Grid technology takes the next step, pooling computing power over the Internet, linking and managing global computing resources for solving the challenging computer problems of particle physics and astrophysics, climate modeling, genetics, earthquake ...