EU Pledges $63 Million For Grid Computing

KingFishKingFish
edited September 2004 in Science & Tech
The European Union has decided to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to the latest computing trends--it's putting $63.4 million into grids.
The grid handout will be put into 12 separate European research projects, with the majority of the funding being put into four larger projects, which will receive around $10 million each. Grid computing, which handles large computing tasks by sharing out the workload across several machines, has typically been used in academic and certain commercial projects with large numbers of in-house computers. One big grid project is designed for research--it uses 6,000-odd machines to investigate particle physics. It has also been seen as a way for the tech community to push forward not-for-profit projects that don't have resources to invest in extra computing power--for example, the SETI@home project, which hunts for alien life.
Source: c|net
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