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AstroGrid was a £7.7M project which built a data-grid for UK astronomy, forming part of the UK contribution to the International Virtual Observatory. AstroGrid announced its first full production release on 1 April 2008.

The project ran, in three phases, from 2001 to 2009. Accounts of its end-days suggest that many in the community regretted its early closing.

References

1. Community/News/20080401-nam2008 – AstroGrid – Trac Archived May 13, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
2. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Physics names winners and losers
3. C-day Plus One « The e-Astronomer
4. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | An astronomer's view of funding cuts

External links

• http://www.astrogrid.org
• http://www.stfc.ac.uk/

• Astronomy in the United Kingdom
• College and university associations and consortia in the United Kingdom
• Grid computing projects
• Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
• Science and Technology Facilities Council
• University of Edinburgh
• Virtual observatories