Datagrid, a project for pooling computing power, will receive 9.8 million euros (about $9.2 million) over the next three years from the European Union. The project’s 21 partners, headed by CERN, will need to match the EU money two to one. The grid is needed to cope with the petabytes of experimental data expected to accumulate annually after the 2005 scheduled start of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider. Thousands of European physicists will need access to the data. The project will be developed alongside other grids worldwide (see Physics Today, November 2000, page 48). Biologists will also be involved in planning the grid, since data-rich genomics experiments are likely to be the next testbed of grid technology.
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