MCNC Grid Computing & Networking Services develops, tests and deploys grid computing and advanced networking solutions. Through its North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), MCNC provides high-speed Internet, video, audio, data and computing services to universities and other institutions. NCREN is the backbone for building the North Carolina Statewide Grid and supporting future technology growth.
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In the scientific research community, the notion of ?The Grid? invokes thoughts of networked computers sharing data and applications to efficiently accomplish a computing task.
During the first N.C. Statewide Grid workshop last summer at MCNC, a group of 20 people learned another meaning of The Grid a network of people from North Carolina universities armed with the technical know-how and passionate commitment to evangelize the need to build and participate in one of the nations first statewide computing grids to benefit North Carolinas research and education community.