ICT KennisCongres 2003 – Grids: Achtergronden en praktijk– n° 13 A Working Grid: the EU DataGrid Objective: build the next generation computing infrastructure providing intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities u official start in 2001 u 21 partners u in the Netherlands: NIKHEF, SARA, KNMI u Pilot applications: earth observation, bio-medicine, high-energy physics u aim for production and stability next: history of grids
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