Students and young professionals across the UK have worked hard in 2006 to win the Grid Computing Now! competition.

The nationwide competition, run in association with the British Computer Society, was only one grassroots element of a broader campaign by Hotwire. The goal was to promote UK leadership in the adoption and exploitation of grid computing - a much misunderstood technology resource – on behalf of Grid Computing Now!, the UK’s task force funded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). The campaign aimed to achieve not only the immediate adoption of grid computing but also to excite tomorrow’s IT leaders about the huge potential it offers.