[December 11, 2005] Asia's first computing grid centre to be set up in Taiwan Tweet (Asia In Focus)TAIPEI, Dec 12 Asia in Focus - Academia Sinica, Taiwan's top research institute, will cooperate with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to build a Large Hadron Collider (LHC) computing grid maintenance center in Taiwan that will be the first of its kind in all Asia. Academia Sinica President Lee Yuan-tse and CERN Deputy Director Jos Engelen jointly signed a memorandum Friday on the establishment of a Tier-1 LHC computing grid maintenance center to be located in Academia Sinica's Institute of Physics. * CERN is the world's largest particle physics laboratory and the LHC Computing Grid Project is CERN's flagship project. * The LHC, currently being built at CERN near Geneva, is the largest scientific instrument on the planet and is set to begin operations in 2007. SUMMARY Asia's first computing grid centre to be set up in Taiwan by European Organization for Nuclear Research venture ASIA IN FOCUS 12-12 1218 [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]