Management of Knowledge-based Grids

Fujitsu is set to bring high-performance computing (HPC) to Wales. They will provide a distributed grid which is a project set over five-years costing up to £40 million. The grid will include over 1400 nodes which is spread across more than eight sites, linked using Fujitsu’s middleware technology SynfiniWay which will deliver an aggregated performance of more than 190 petaflops. Knowledge Grids are self-explanatory; their purpose is to share knowledge. At this day and age we have come to a point where we are using computers to create vast amount of data. The information overload is so big that human beings are not able to analyse that data in a timely manner and extract the much seeked knowledge that will allow to further science and better our lives. We are at a point where we now have to teach computers how to extract knowledge from raw data.