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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • March 24, 2002
    ``IBM is working with the [US] Department of Energy to build a `grid' to interconnect numerous computers into a shared virtual supercomputing system that hundreds of researchers can tap into, Big Blue will announce Friday.

    ``The seed of the DOE Science Grid consists of just two computer systems at present, but in the future it will include others at the national laboratories of Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, Oak Ridge and Pacific Northwest.

    ``The first two computers on the Science Grid will be a 3,328-processor Unix system at the DOE's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), which IBM designed, and a smaller and more recent 160-processor Intel system. In addition, a storage system at NERSC with 1.3 petabytes of space--about 30,000 times that of a desktop computer--will be attached.''

    Full story:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1001-866452.html

    Reference by Slashdot.com.

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