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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / OCTOBER 6, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 40
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Systems/Enterprise:
INTEL WORKING WITH CHINA TO
DEVELOP RESEARCH GRID
Intel Corp and China's Ministry of Education have embarked on a project to
link 100 of the nation's universities together to form a national computing
Grid.
When all is said and done, the Grid should be one of the most powerful in
thw
world -- capable of trillions of calculations of second, up to 15 Teraflops --
and will be used for work in life sciences, financial projects, earthquake
research and the petroleum industry.
The Grid also will help to support the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by
adding power to the "Digital Olympics" initiative.
The company is working with servor vendors to equip the schools with Intel-
Itanium-2-equipped computers.
The China Education and Research Network will link the participating
universities to the Grid.
AMD, another top chip maker, also is working with institutions in the
country
to develop powerful computers.
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