GRID GRANT

BY ALAN OSBORNThe European Commission is pressing ahead with the EU's GRID project by making a grant of 52 million euros to fund 12 new research projects which Brussels said were designed to bring GRID networked computing "out of research labs and into industry."The latest grant follows a 32 million euro contribution announced in April "to create a service grid infrastructure across Europe and potentially internationally for scientific research." Grid computing is based on the use of clusters of computers within in a distributed telecommunications network to ...


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