Grids take center stage during the Global Grid Challenge according to PhysOrg.com and reported by Slashdot. Successfully transmitting 500 terabytes of data over a 10 day period, a team of eight major computer centers from the US and Europe joined together to form a global computing infrastructure. The purpose of the Challenge tests is to prepare for the massive amounts of data to be generated and shared via the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN due to come online in 2007. Once in operation, the LHC is supposed to produce 1500 MB of data every second for a decade.

The collaborative success demonstrated by this particular service challenge is a seminal issue for the broader impacts of global cyberinfrastructure. The ability to quickly perform massive calculations is only one part of the big picture. Moving large chunks of data around the globe in a timely manner opens new doors of opportunity.

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