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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / AUGUST 11, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 32
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Breaking News - General:
Grid Employed for Virtual Experiments
A single experiment on two steel beams, one at the University of Illinois and
another at the University of Colorado, was directed by computers at the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana.
Five times each second, information collected in the two laboratories was fed
to a computer, which then sent a new set of instructions back to the labs.
The experiment was the first real-time test of the National Earthquake
Engineering Simulation computer grid. It allows researchers outside the labs
to watch an experiment unfold, visually and through the data that's collected.
Dan Abrams of the Mid-America Earthquake Center at the U of I says the grid
should speed up the pace of earthquake research around the country.
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