IBM to provide Grid infrastructure to UKGlasgow 02 August 2001 IBM will provide infrastructure technology to several centers in the U.K. National Grid. The company is collaborating with these Grid centers to link a massive network of computers throughout the United Kingdom.
The British government, through the Office of Science and Technology, is
building the National Grid for collaborative scientific research in a wide
spectrum of disciplines. It will also serve as a testbed for deploying
"e-utility computing" also known as "e-sourcing" - the delivery of computing
resources including bandwidth, applications, storage as a utility-like service
over the Internet.
The U.K. National Grid Center is located in Edinburgh/Glasgow, and there will be
eight regional centers located at the universities of Oxford, Newcastle,
Belfast, Manchester, Cardiff, Cambridge, Southampton and Imperial College,
London.
IBM has already won a tender to build a sophisticated data storage facility at
Oxford University, which will be the primary U.K. source of high energy physics
data generated by a leading experiment at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois. This is
one of several major high energy physics projects that are planning to make use
of the Grid, such as the new Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN, the
European particle physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Also, using the
National Grid, scientists at Cambridge will be able to run
high-energy physics applications on computers in Belfast.
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