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December 16, 2008

Grid Applications: A New Way To Do Business

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Dec. 15 -- Grid technology developed by European researchers offers a new way to do business, with partners working simply, seamlessly and 'virtually' around a common goal. It is already having a big impact, in a variety of applications.

GlaxoSmithKline can now link up with product partners in days or weeks rather than months. Meteorologists will soon access libraries of weather data from across the globe through their browser in seconds. The aerospace and automotive industries can quickly deploy widespread teams to tackle complex problems.

These are the first impacts to spring from the SIMDAT project, a massive European research effort to bring grid technology to bear on the business world.

It could help improve car safety, reduce noise and vibrations in cars, usher in low-noise aircraft able to use short runways, promote faster and targeted drug discovery and development. It could enable better weather prediction and climate analysis.

This is just the beginning. SIMDAT has created a portfolio of tools for grid deployment in business environments, focusing initially on product development in four of the most demanding sectors in the world: pharmaceuticals, aerospace, automotive and meteorology.

Industrial strength

"The industries we chose were quite different," recalls Professor Dr Ulrich Trottenberg, director of Fraunhofer SCAI, coordinating partner of SIMDAT. "It was a particular strength of SIMDAT to aim at several industrial sectors to try to find out what can be done independent of the sector and what has to be done within the sector."

SIMDAT applied their technology to meteorology to develop a way for researchers to access data anywhere in the world, from any weather service, using 11 pilot national weather agencies to establish and validate the system.

In pharmaceuticals, SIMDAT applied its portfolio of technologies to drug discovery, using grids to link research partners with GlaxoSmithKline. Typically, it could take months to get a partnership up and running. With the SIMDAT system, it takes days or weeks. Consider the savings when GlaxoSmithKline is known to spend €300,000 an hour on drug discovery research.

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