Distributed Computing

For large amount of data, intense data mining etc … distributed computing may be the key.
In the U.S., three big Grid collaboration - iVDGL (International Virtual data Grid Laboratory) - GriPhyn (Grid Physics Network) - PPDG (Particle Physics Data Grid)
PP what ??
STAR is part of PPDG since Year1 (2 years ago) CS & Experiments working together We collaborate with : SDM (SRM), U-Wisconsin (Condor), J-Lab and even possibly Phenix …

For large amount of data, intense data mining etc … distributed computing may be the key.