GRID INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AS A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL TOOL FOR E-SCIENCE, HEALTHCARE AND LIFE SCIENCE

Nowadays, scientific projects require collaborative environments and powerful computing resources capable of handling huge quantities of data, which gives rise to e-Science. These requirements are evident in the need to optimise time and efforts in activities to do with health. When e-Science focuses on the collaborative handling of all the information generated in clinical medicine and health, e-Health is the result. Scientists are taking increasing interest in an emerging technology - Grid Information Technology - that may offer a solution to their current needs. The current work aims to survey how e- Science is using this technology all around the world. We also argue that the technology may provide an ideal solution for the new challenges facing e-Health and Life Science.