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Geoffrey Fox, Director of FutureGrid

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"High-performance computing . . . is absolutely essential for analyzing the torrent of data that is being continually produced," says Indiana University Professor of Informatics Geoffrey Fox. Credit: Indiana University

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October 8, 2009

The FutureGrid Program is a U.S. National Science Foundation-funded project to determine the best ways to connect supercomputers together, headed by Indiana University professor Geoffrey Fox. Fox says that FutureGrid is a component of TeraGrid, and its goal is to support the creation of new system software and applications that can be simulated to expedite the take-up of new technologies in scientific computing. 

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