The other significant aspect and benefit of the UNESCO-HP project is related to building the capacity of faculty and students on the use of grid computing technology.

UNESCO: Education

Our priorities for the coming months include facilitating more hands-on training on the use of grid computing technology, publicizing its application, connecting to existing grid and getting more experts from the Diaspora to participate in the project.

UNESCO: Education

These training sessions and other publicity programs have engendered sufficient interest among faculty and students on the use of grid computing technology, however, the low bandwidth challenges being experienced by the University as well as non linkage to existing grids has limited the use of the technology by faculty and students.

UNESCO: Education

Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.

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