Existing Grids
- Many grids exist already. Mostly for scientific computing.
- "TeraGrid is a multi-year effort to build and deploy
the world's largest, most comprehensive, distributed
infrastructure for open scientific research. By 2004, the
TeraGrid will include 20 teraflops of computing power
distributed at five sites, facilities capable of managing and
storing nearly 1 petabyte of data, high-resolution
visualization environments, and toolkits for grid
computing. Four new TeraGrid sites, announced in September
2003, will add more scientific instruments, large datasets,
and additional computing power and storage capacity to the
system. All the components will be tightly integrated and
connected through a network that operates at 40 gigabits
per second."
- Dr. Kirk
Cameron heads a laboratory which has recently joined the Grid.
José M. Vidal
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