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11/21/2005

TeraGrid

A lot of research in grid computing is currently taking place. The TeraGrid is an effort by the National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov) to build and deploy the world's largest distributed infrastructure for open scientific research. In practical terms that means developing a common environment and interface to the user community to a rather diverse set of high-performance computing resources-including clusters. In some cases it also involves hooking up the physical systems to be used in conjunction with each other and providing environments that are similar so that researchers can move between systems more easily.

As John Towns, senior associate director, Persistent Infrastructure Directorate at NCSA, explains, many researchers have multi-stage applications that require different kinds of computing architectures to solve. "So the TeraGrid is attempting to facilitate the use of these multiple architectures-often sited at different locations-to support their research efforts."

Learn more about the TeraGrid at www.teragrid.org. Learn more about grid computing at www.ggf.org.

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