Field-specific grids
Field-specific grids like those below have been created to tackle specific scientific problems. Do you have a particular scientific interest? Chances are there's a grid that could help answer your big questions.
| AstroGrid: astronomy BIRN: human disease CaBIG: cancer |
Earth System Grid: climate ECOGrid: economics FusionGrid: fusion energy |
NEESit : earthquakes Virolab: infectious disease ...@home: volunteer computing |
| PROJECT DETAILS | AstroGrid | The global Virtual Observatory |
| SYNOPSIS | AstroGrid enables astronomers to explore and bookmark resources from around the world, find data, store and share files, query databases, plot and manipulate tables, cross-match catalogues, and build and run scripts to automate sequences of tasks. The project is funded until 2009. | |
| PROJECT DETAILS | BIRN | Human disease |
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The Biomedical Informatics Research Network is a geographically distributed virtual community aiming to advance the diagnosis and treatment of human disease. BIRN enables researchers across the U.S. to collaborate on large-scale studies of disease with unique, multi-resolution tools. Projects include the study of schizophrenia, depression, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, schiziphrenia, Parkinson's disease, ADHD, Tourette's disorder and brain cancer. |
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| PROJECT DETAILS | CaBIG | Cancer research and care |
| SYNOPSIS | caBIG™ stands for the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid™, an information network enabling the cancer community – researchers, physicians and patients – to share data and knowledge. The components of caBIG™ are widely applicable beyond cancer as well. Read about CaBIG in iSGTW |
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| PROJECT DETAILS | Earth System Grid | Climate research |
| SYNOPSIS | ESG aims to enable the next generation of climate research, powering new ways of analyzing and developing knowledge from global earth system models. Read about Earth System Grid in iSGTW |
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| PROJECT DETAILS | ECOGrid | Grids and economics |
| SYNOPSIS | ECOGrid research focuses on the development of economic or market-based resource management and scheduling systems for global grid computing. | |
| PROJECT DETAILS | FusionGrid | Study of fusion energy |
| SYNOPSIS | FusionGrid is helping to advance scientific understanding and innovation in magnetic fusion research by enabling more efficient use of existing experimental facilities and more effective integration of experiment, theory, and modeling. | |
| PROJECT DETAILS | NEESit | Earthquake research |
| SYNOPSIS | The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to build a national virtual "collaboratory" for earthquake engineering research. Read about NEES grid in iSGTW |
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| PROJECT DETAILS | Virolab | Study of infectious diseases |
| SYNOPSIS | ViroLab is developing a grid-based virtual laboratory for the study of infectious diseases. The laboratory provides tools that help medical doctors understand drug resistance and tailor drug therapy to specific patients, providing virologists with an advanced environment in which to study virus trends. Involves partners across Europe Read about Virolab in iSGTW |
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