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- samina08 rated 5 weeks ago
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yocum rated 5 weeks ago- Worst article about grid computing, ever! Completely misses what a grid is, and misleads the public into thinking they can get access to it. Hi, I'm Dan Yocum. I work on grid technologies at Fermi National Accelerator Lab (http://www.fnal.gov), specifically FermiGrid (http://fermigrid.fnal.gov), which is a site on the Open Science Grid (http://www.opensciencegrid.org). The "Grid" is *not* a just super fast network. Yes, it utilizes high bandwidth network equipment, but that's not the whole of it. The Grid also includes the computers at the end points of the network connections, as well as all the software necessary to run data analysis on those computers. That software includes the batch processing systems (i.e., condor, pbs, LVS, SGE, et al.), the authentication and authorization middleware (i.e., security software), the resource selection software (i.e., which sites on the grid has available CPU and hard drive space to submit a data analysis job to), the data transmission software (i.e., gridftp, srm, et al.), the storage management software, among other things. This Jonathan Leake guy clearly failed to do *any* research into grid technologies. Don't waste your time with this article.
- Laukev7 rated 5 weeks ago
- Coming soon: superfast internet "That network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world. One terminates at the Rutherford Appleton laboratory at Harwell in Oxfordshire. From each centre, further connections radiate out to a host of other research institutions using existing high-speed academic networks. It means Britain alone has 8,000 servers on the grid system -- so that any student or academic will theoretically be able to hook up to the grid rather than the internet from this autumn. Ian Bird, project leader for Cern's high-speed computing project, said grid technology could make the internet so fast that people would stop using desktop computers to store information and entrust it all to the internet. 'It will lead to what's known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,' he said." Yeah, smart idea. Put all your files online, so that the government can look through them and tamper with them and delete what they don't like 10,000 times faster! Got music you downloaded from the Internet? The RIAA will be able to tell the government to delete it. A centralised network to 'replace' the Internet will give the government an excuse to put tight controls over it and censor and control what people are allowed to say. NO THANKS.
- Diatribe75 rated 6 weeks ago
- 10,000 times more faster, really cool, I welcome the Grid..
- rocktopus rated 6 weeks ago
- Well, the good news about the Large Hadron Collider is that if it doesn't turn our world into a black hole, it will give us the next Internet.
- dtanner89 rated 6 weeks ago
- You got me at "multiplayer games with many thousands of people"!
- geojim56 rated 6 weeks ago
From the page: "THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. "At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, -- the grid -- will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."
- earl1940 rated 6 weeks ago
- THE internet could soon be made obsolete. The scientists who pioneered it have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds. At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, "the grid" will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds. Wow! Now......what about privacy? Or does Big Brother have access to it all?
