BANGKOK, Oct 11 – Thailand is collaborating with a Geneva-based science laboratory to set up Southeast Asia’s first centre on computing grid, it was announced yesterday.
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) will sign an agreement to work closely with three Thai academic institutions – the National Science and Technology Development Agency, Chulalongkorn University and Suranaree Technology University – to develop a Worldwide Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Computing Grid (WLCG).
The WLCG project is to provide global computing resources to store, distribute and analyse 25 million gigabytes of data annually generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN on the Franco-Swiss border.
The collaboration is at the initiative of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn who HAS made four visits to the CERN headquarters.
The agreement, approved by the Cabinet on the Thai side, will be signed today.
The acquired data will contribute to Thailand’s infrastructure development for among others, water management, climate change studies and computer engineering, and strengthen the national research system.
