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Tuesday, May 07, 2002
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1957000/1957958.stm Grid helps science go sky-high Mark Ward, BBC News Online technology correspondent Astronomers could be among the first to reap the rewards of plans to turn the internet into a vast pool of computer processing power. The three-year Astrogrid project is attempting to give astronomers a common way of accessing and manipulating diverse data archives. The project will also help scientists cope with the wave of data that novel telescopes and instruments are expected to generate.... Astrogrid is a £5m project that attempts to put a single, friendly interface on the huge number of astronomical archives and data sets currently held online. It is one of many projects inspired by research on ways of using the computers attached to the net as a coupled supercomputer or a storage system with almost limitless capacity....
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