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.
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.
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.
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
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