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The Grid
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 6:28 am
by Apoptosis
The World Wide Web was born in 1990 to manage the billions of bytes of data from experiments at CERN, Europe's particle-physics laboratory. Now the same laboratory is gearing up for a new round of experiments that could generate more than a quadrillion bytes of data every month - data that will have to be processed and delivered to researchers around the world. Is there anything in sight that could outdo the Web? Say hello to the Grid.
Source:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/ ... 35021.aspx
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:02 am
by Dragon_Cooler
WOW
This will certainly be interesting to see. Though i wonder if some <insert govt name here> will want to stop in fear of something as it seems like that have been trying to do with most anything lately.
Thank you for posting this, this is quite interesting.
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:07 am
by Apoptosis
yeah I found it interesting too... I liked this part:
But when you consider Grids for the common computer user, you have to remember the potential downside. Like the Web, the Grid can be used for good or evil: One could easily imagine the rise of a malevolent Grid - in fact, the zombies may already be taking over.
Zombies!
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:20 am
by Sporg
Great post and great read, thanks!
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 8:24 am
by kenc51
Folding team 38296
Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 5:49 pm
by Zertz
kenc51 wrote:Folding team 38296
That would be insane lol
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 5:52 am
by KnightRid
kenc51 wrote:Folding team 38296
Most defintely!!!
This would even be better
http://www.technudge.net/?p=14035
quote - "Sun Microsystems announced today that its hardware will power the largest supercomputer ever built, weighing in with 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of memory, 1.7 petabytes of disk space, and 504 teraflops of performance."
Mike
62,976 cores
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 6:42 am
by Dragon_Cooler
would be pretty cool if they had a "fold for a day, for you"
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 7:36 am
by Darkstar
goes online 1/1/2008, i'll be looking for the biggest blackout ever! lol
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:09 pm
by novicegamer
Wonder if they will ever need the fire extinguisher
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 12:35 pm
by maj0r_pawnage
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 8:36 pm
by DaIceMan
looks like my basement on LAN night.
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2007 9:17 pm
by bubba
you got one big basement
