LAHORE, March 17: Pakistan will be connected to a computer grid system in the next couple of years to make it possible for institutions as well as individuals to use countless terabytes of idle memory of super computers in various countries on their PCs.

The system is being regarded as a great technological development and all one is required a monitor and a key board to use the system.

A top scientist said on Sunday that a team of computer scientists from the United States, Italy and Switzerland working on the computer grid system had visited Pakistan sometime back and offered to make available a “note point” (a country connection) to the government.

The offer was made more because of the role played by a young Pakistani engineer in the California Institute of Technology in connecting super computers and bring their idle memory in use.

The Pakistan government had responded positively in getting the country connected to the system.

“The facility is going to become a reality in the next one or two years and it will revolutionize society”, the scientist said

The facility will, however, be available only to people of the countries linked to the system.

Commenting on the importance of the development, the scientist said it was a revolution in the computer technology because users of the system would not have memory problems.

They would be able to undertake gigantic projects like designing cars, bridges and roads on ordinary computers.

He said although different computer systems used different languages, the users of the computer grid system would face no problem on this account.