Mighty Hook-Up

RESEARCHERS at the National University of Singapore will be able to run complex experiments like financial modelling and protein analysis using the largest computer grid to be set up in one location here.

The grid, to be built at the Kent Ridge Campus, will tap the unused computing resources of 800 PCs and will slash the time needed to run complex experiments - from days to just hours.

Costing $500,000, the Tera-Scale Campus Grid@NUS will be completed in about three months.

[Source: Straits Times, 18 Nov 04, Thursday]