The expansion of a proposal from University of Texas at Austin (UTA) professor Kaushik De for computing large-scale, big data scientific projects is the focus of a global, multi-institutional effort to apply Production and Distributed Analysis (PanDA) software. De developed PanDA to enable large computing centers from all over the world to automatically collaborate to solve scientific challenges. As part of the big data project, De and colleagues have received U.S. Energy Department funding to incorporate networking capabilities into PanDA. Meanwhile, Russia recently gave Brookhaven National Laboratory scientist Alexei Klimentov a $3.4-million grant to work with the United States in developing improved data management capabilities for PanDA, which De says will broaden a PanDA feature similar to cloud computing while surpassing the capacity of commercial servers. the World  To read further, please visit http://www.theshorthorn.com/news/software-made-to-allow-global-collaboration/article_29614834-b4af-11e3-a424-0017a43b2370.html.