Europe joins race to turn the Internet into one vast computer

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CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, plans to present a proposal to the European Union for a grid infrastructure to convert the Internet into a single extremely large computer. The proposal will initially concentrate on particle physics, but European Union funding could be extended in 2001 to other fields such as biology. Some European Commission officials believe that the challenge presented by the high volumes of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN will be a chance to catch up with the US in building what many anticipate will be the replacement for the web.

Planning, Computer networks, European Organization for Nuclear Research

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Disease surveillance needs a revolution

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Avian flu is endemic across large parts of Asia and has exploded across Europe and Africa, which has put disease surveillance under scrutiny, especially in Asian countries which lack decent human disease surveillance. Many hope that by strengthening the infrastructure, proper planning and expertise and plenty of resources these diseases could be tackled.

Europe, Asia, Africa, Emergency medical services, Control, Epidemics, Avian influenza

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Tomorrow's computing today

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A prototype Grid has been developed, which should be able to give scientists unprecedented computing speed, data access and functionality due to a suite of software tools. Physicists are hopeful of identifying the signatures of rare subatomic particles plan to link up computers around the world to give them the data-crunching power they need.

Usage, World Wide Web, Peer to peer computing, Network architecture, Network architectures

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