A role for service providers in data integration and electronic data capture projects

Grid computing offers an affordable, efficient way for organizations to provide the high levels of compute power needed to solve complex computing challenges. By sharing resources over a grid, pharmaceutical companies can accelerate drug discovery from years to days using massive amounts of compute power to screen hundreds of thousands of molecules against targeted diseases. To take advantage of grid computing, according to this white paper from IDC Corp., organizations must have a cost-effective, high-performance architecture that can scale to meet the needs of a large, distributed enterprise.

In addition, organizations must have a software platform that can coordinate grid resources seamlessly and securely with minimal impact to users and administrators.

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