Europe's GEANT aims to create a global research network

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2008

BRUSSELS (AFP) — The world's highest-speed computer network, Europe's GEANT, is linking up with others worldwide to create a global research network, according to the European Commission.

GEANT, the world's largest computer network dedicated to research and education, already links researchers from Reykjavik to Vladivostok.

Now high-sepeed links will be established with similar research systems in Asia, Latin America and southern Africa, as well as the Balkans, the Black Sea and Mediterranean regions, with help from European funding, the EU's executive arm said.

"With GEANT's massive data processing capacity, Europe can now bring together the best minds in the world to tackle the challenges that we all face," enthused EU Information and Media Commissioner...