Ignore this Person Initiated??????
How 'bout launched <G>...Btw, didn't NASA say something about exploring Outer Regions of the Universe (Pluto)...
Tuesday July 16, 9:02 am Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: SGI
SGI and Platform Computing Power U.K. Grid for Stephen Hawking's Cosmology Group
U.K. Computing Grid to Provide the Power Needed to Model History of the Universe
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and TORONTO, July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SGI (NYSE: SGI - News), Platform Computing and the U.K. National Cosmology Consortium, headed by University of Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking, today announced a new joint initiative to create a national U.K. Cosmology Grid.
Known as CosmoGrid, this $3 million endeavor will support the COSMOS project, which enables experts to model the history of the universe from the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang to the present day, more than 10 billion years later. Funded by the UK Higher Education Funding Council, CosmoGrid is a collaboration among the universities of Cambridge, Sussex, Manchester, Oxford and Portsmouth and the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine.
At the heart of CosmoGrid is a large, shared-memory SGI® Origin® 3800 supercomputer in Cambridge running Platform grid computing software solutions and linked to SGI systems at the six university sites, creating the largest cosmology supercomputer grid in the U.K. Platform Computing, the leader in distributed computing software, will customize its grid computing software solutions, including Platform LSF®, MultiCluster and Platform Globus, to integrate CosmoGrid's distributed IT infrastructure and improve IT efficiency.
Professor Hawking, principal investigator on the project explained, "A key research area of our consortium is the scientific exploration of the cosmic microwave background, or CMB, the relic radiation left over from the Big Bang. We are using the COSMOS supercomputer to develop techniques to analyze data from the world's most ambitious CMB experiment, the Planck Surveyor satellite, due for launch in 2007. This analysis is very computationally challenging, but it will give us unprecedented new information about the origin and present state of our universe...
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