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If you are an academic involved in research in China, you can apply for an account on the GOC. Access to significant compute and data resources across the China is available to all those in the Chinese academic community - simply register using the Apply for Access link. Training is free.

The GOC welcomes all new people who wish to get involved, whether it be as users, resource providers or members of industry interested in technology transfer.

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About Grid

The concept of Grid Computing is an extension of the Internet used to share widespread computing power, storage capabilities, and many other resources. Over the last few years, it has gradually gained prominence in academic and research communities. Many fields--such as High Energy Physics, Bio-Informatics, and Digital Archive--demand greater storage capacities due to the deluge of data and information being created. Grid Computing makes on-demand allocation and management of integrated computing resources possible. However, Grid Computing requires more development before it can become the next generation computing infrastructure.

This concept of Grid Computing has concrete implementation that has been employed and stress-tested in the field of High Energy Physics. The largest project today is the LCG (LHC Computing Grid) under CERN. The goal is to integrate large geographically distributed computing fabrics into one virtual computing environment for the LHC. This project involves distributed scientifice applications, computational grid middleware, automated computer system management, high performance networking, object database management, secureity, and global grid operations.

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