The European Commission is putting €52m (£35m) into
research projects aimed at boosting the take-up of grid networked
computing among its 25 member states.
The funding for 12 projects is designed to "bring grid computing
out of research labs and into industry," the European Commission
said.
Grid computing pools processing cycles from multiple computers
to maximise capacity, memory, power and other resources distributed
across multiple systems.
The bulk of the money will go to four projects:
- Simdat focuses on the auto, aerospace and pharmaceutical
industries
- Nextgrid aims to develop a new grid networking architecture by
the end of the decade
- Akogrimo focuses on mobile communications and IPv6 (Internet
Protocol version 6)
- Coregrid brings together existing grid research
communities.
Together with eight smaller initiatives, these projects will
bring together dozens of European universities, research institutes
and large and small companies to drive the development of grid
computing, the European Commission said.
Simon
Taylor writes for IDG News Service