Brussels, 23/01/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 23 January 2009, the European Commission announced that it will give scientists all over Europe working on nuclear fusion, which taps energy from reactions that those that heat the sun, dedicated access to the network of the most powerful national supercomputers in Europe (DEISA, Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications). This will enable them to carry out complex parts of their research, such as simulating a fusion reactor's operation. DEISA uses Europe's GEANT, the world's largest computer network, to share the huge amounts of data and processing power of Europe's supercomputers, and is receiving €26 million from the EU from 2004-2011. The scientists are part of an ongoing global thermonuclear research project called ITER. For further information see http: //cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/home_en.html (L.C. trans fl)