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India Plans A Supercomputing Grid

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the intrasubcontinental dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "According to this article at CNET, India is building a country-wide High Speed Network. Named the "I-Grid" (I is for 'Information' silly !), its a feat for the Indians who have been bogged down by U.S. sanctions in the recent past -- besides, with a country as big as theirs, its one helluva project!"

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  1. the down side... by edrugtrader · · Score: 0, Funny

    the data doesn't travel over wires... rather highly trained camels carry packets. still uses IP though.

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    1. Re:the down side... by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Ahhh. Perhaps they are adapting the Avian Carrier technology to Large Ruminants to provide lower altitude, higher throughput (camels can carry more than birds) service. Latency is still pretty bad, I'll bet.

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  2. Re:India? by swissmonkey · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, at least 1/8 of the world cares about this place, that's much more than all the ignorant morons of your kind put together.

  3. Go for it! by bcilfone · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hopefully they can pull it off... maybe then the US government will encourage its tech workers instead of threatening to throw them in jail in the name of a cartoon mouse.

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  4. Where do they go for outsourcing? by cmdr_beeftaco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Where will they go for contractors when the project is 6 months behinds schedule and 50 million over budget? Will they farm out the programming to Pakistan? China? I need answer.

  5. Heh by EricKrout.com · · Score: 3, Funny

    India's new i-Grid follows a long line of previously successfull Apple products, the i-Pod and the i-Mac being two of them.

    When reached for comment, Apple's visionary Steve Jobs stated that his engineers "would worry about the technical difficulties" associated with such a large distributed system after they "dealt with the more important stuff first, like what fluorescent color to make the transparent wires and stuff".

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  6. Mammoth applications? by Oink.NET · · Score: 2, Funny
    Quoth CNet:

    India's state-run agency for advanced computing plans to build a nationwide grid of supercomputers for mammoth applications.

    Mammoth, as in wooly mammoth? I suppose they'll be excavating Cobol programmers to write the code for it...

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