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Three Korean Universities Including CNU Participate in the E.U.’s New Project

작성자 작성일2004.05.29 09:39 조회1892
The European Union (E.U.) is advancing its grid computing plans with the launch of a new project to establish a service grid infrastructure throughout Europe for scientific and industrial research and development. The project, dubbed Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe (EGEE), replaces the three-year European DataGrid (EDG) project, which built test computing infrastructure to provide shared data and computing resources to the European scientific community. The new project will build on EDG, aiming to build a reliable and secure grid infrastructure that is available 24-hours a day, according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which is leading the project. The project is being funded by the E.U. with participation from 70 partner organizations. The joint research team, named CKSC, composed of the researchers from CNU, Kangnung National University, and Sejong University participate in the project. Prof. Kim Se-yong of Sejong University leads the team as chief researcher with Prof. Kim Do-man of CNU. The Korean Team established a memorandum of understanding with the EGEE project team in order to cooperate for building a distributed computing infrastructure strategy. Based on the memorandum signed, the CKSC team will conduct a research project of “A Study on the Utilization of the E.U.’s DataGrid Environments for High-Energy Physics and Bio Informatics.” The project will be sponsored by the Ministry of Science and Technology for the next four years. Prof. Kim Do-man in the School of Biological Sciences and Technology will take the initiative of the research project and play a major role as a leading researcher. Prof. Kim is currently leading the Laboratory of Functional Carbohydrate Enzymes and Microbial Genomics. In the near future when the project is completed successfully, the world can build a grid with the computing power of 15,000 to 20,000 aggregated processors serving some 3,000 users. The EGEE project is compared to the creation of World Wide Web, which also took shape at CERN.