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Science 29 September 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5488, pp. 2250 - 2251
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5488.2250a
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DATA NETWORKS:
Scientists Weave New-Style Webs to Tame the Information Glut

David Voss

Physicists collaborating on a new generation of big experiments may drown in a data waterfall unless they find a way to channel the flow. A consortium of 16 universities has just received an $11.9 million federal grant to build a shared computational network, or data grid, that they hope will serve as the right sort of pipeline--and lead to even better science.

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