[CAnet - news] Dutch FTTh project enables grid by local hospital to study bone ageing

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[Here is a very interesting partnership between Erasmus Medial Centre and a
local municipal FTTh project that allows the hospital to establish a high
speed grid using PCs in the community connected to the FTTh network.  The
main web site is Dutch, but thanks to Vincent Dekker for this brief synopsis
and pointer. The European  BEinGrid is also worth checking out, as it
demonstrating a number of commercial applications for Grids--BSA]


http://www.trouw.nl/deverdieping/dossiers/article492446.ece/Almere_Grid_
We_hebben_elkaars_computer_nodig?backlink=true

It's mainly on what grid computing can do for business in Almere (twin-city
more or less of Amsterdam), but one detail might interest you:

Almere Grid has some members who already have ftth at home (Almere being one
of the first cities in Holland starting with ftth), and therefore it can
help Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam with a study on bone ageing. This
study is based on scans of bones, each scan being something of 0.5 to 5.0
gigabytes of data. Participants of Almere Grid have to download several
scans then make one new scan out of these and send this result back to
Erasmus MC.  'That's only possible when people have ftth' according to Ad
Emmen, director of the Almere Grid foundation. I'm inclined to agree...

ftth opens new exiting grid-possibilities for research...

Almere Grid will officially start operating tomorrow, wednesday 27-9-06

It's also participating in the European BEinGrid-program: see
www.beingrid.com

best,
Vincent Dekker,
Trouw
The Netherlands


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