[CAnet - news] Grid Computing vital to Europe's future says EU

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Grid computing 'vital to Europe's future'
Catherine Everett
		
	
The European Commission (EC) has announced that grid computing will be a
cornerstone in attempts to improve the coordination of research and
development activities across Europe and improve competition with the US and
Japan.

In a speech on Tuesday, Viviane Reding, the EC's Commissioner for
Information Society, said grids will be a "crucial enabling technology in
achieving the productivity and growth challenges".

Grid technology is key to the new European Information Society 2010
initiative which aims to promote higher economic growth and social inclusion
across the union, said Reding. The aim of the initiative is to make the
European Union (EU) "the most competitive, knowledge-based economy in the
world by the year 2010", she said.

"Thanks to the developments in grid technologies driven by a new generation
of European computer scientists, we stand on the edge of what could be
another major technological revolution. By making colossal processing power
on-demand widely available, Grid technologies raises for society and
industry the prospect of solving problems never previously imagined and the
possibility of offering a whole new generation of services," added Reding.

The EC has requested that the research budget for the Seventh EU Framework
Programme be doubled to €70bn (£47bn) over seven years compared with funding
for the previous such programme. Grids "as drivers for new software
infrastructures and service oriented architectures" will be one of the
central research and development focuses.

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