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Open Science Grid Receives $30 Million Award to Empower Scientific Collaboration and Computation

09-25-2006 · Brookhaven National Laboratory

Scientists on the track to discovery got good news this month when a powerful computing tool received critical government funding. A five-year, $30 million award to the Open Science Grid Consortium, announced by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, will operate and expand the Open Science Grid, a computing environment used by scientists to harness computing resources and scientific data from around the world.

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