What is the Grid? How are Grids built and used (today)? What Grid software is available and what does it do? BREAK (somewhere during part III) How have others succeeded? History For years, a few whacky computer scientists have been trying to help other scientists use distributed computing. Interactive simulation (climate modeling) Very large scale simulation and analysis (galaxy formation, gravity waves, battlefield simulation) Engineering (parameter studies, linked component models) Experimental data analysis (high-energy physics) Image and sensor analysis (astronomy, climate study, ecology) Online instrumentation (microscopes, x-ray devices, etc.)
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