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earl1940 rated 3 months 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?
- newwes rated 3 months ago
- SWEET! 10,000 times faster than the Internet. Bring on the grid!
- Nar00W rated 3 months ago
- WANT!!!!
- newbie rated 3 months ago
- "The Grid", in effect a parallel internet, will make our current internet obsolete. It is now being built using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centers in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world. 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. "It will lead to what's known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere," said Ian Bird, project leader for Cern's high-speed computing project.
- parvez rated 3 months ago
- From the page: "This is because the internet has evolved by linking together a hotchpotch of cables and routing equipment, much of which was originally designed for telephone calls and therefore lacks the capacity for high-speed data transmission. By contrast, the grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years. Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: â€oeWe need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern. The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.” 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 â€" 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 Cernâ€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. â€oeIt will lead to whatâ€s known as cloud computing, where people keep all their information online and access it from anywhere,” he said. Computers on the grid can also transmit data at lightning speed. This will allow researchers facing heavy processing tasks to call on the assistance of thousands of other computers around the world. The aim is to eliminate the dreaded â€oefrozen screen” experienced by internet users who ask their machine to handle too much information." Cool!
- mcbill rated 3 months ago
- From the Page: At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection.... The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the "grid" could also... "revolutionise" society... " future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine." The power of the grid will become apparent this summer after what scientists at Cern have termed their "red button" day - the switching-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. The grid will be activated at the same time to capture the data it generates.... annual data equivalent to 56m CDs - enough to make a stack 40 miles high.... Analysing the mountain of data will be such a large task that it will keep even the grid's huge capacity busy for years to come.
- meatbot rated 3 months ago
- "Entrust all their information to the internet"??? Uhm, why? The principle part of this new network--incredibly high speeds of transfer--sounds awesome but I don't like this idea of entrusting information to be mostly non-local. At the very least give me the ability to keep information locally for my own purposes. Since this is still a wired-technology it still has some of the disadvantages of any physical infrastructure. So what's this going to cost? Is it even available for people like you and me?
From the page: "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." - "Entrust all their information to the internet"??? Uhm, why? The principle part of this new network--incredibly high speeds of transfer--sounds awesome but I don't like this idea of entrusting information to be mostly non-local. At the very least give me the ability to keep information locally for my own purposes. Since this is still a wired-technology it still has some of the disadvantages of any physical infrastructure. So what's this going to cost? Is it even available for people like you and me?
- Draconis rated 3 months 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, â€oethe grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds."
- dxerguy rated 3 months ago
- The Internet! Hah! The GRID is coming, with its cloud computing and dynamic switching. Transforming our world.
