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Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci
; 363(1833): 1729-42, 2005 Aug 15.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16099744
ABSTRACT
The state of computer and networking technology today makes the seamless sharing of computing resources on an international or even global scale conceivable. Scientific computing Grids that integrate large, geographically distributed computer clusters and data storage facilities are being developed in several major projects around the world. This article reviews the status of one of these projects, Enabling Grids for E-SciencE, describing the scientific opportunities that such a Grid can provide, while illustrating the scale and complexity of the challenge involved in establishing a scientific infrastructure of this kind.