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Science Grid Genesis
Cranial Dome writes "According to this Cnet.com story, the Department of Energy (DOE) is working to interconnect the first two computers which will form the genesis of the DOE Science Grid, a virtual supercomputing system which will eventually encompass many more systems at several locations. The larger of the two machines: DOE National Energy Research Science Center's (NERSC) IBM SP RS/6000, a distributed memory machine with 2,944 compute processors. This machine, together with a smaller 160 processor Intel system, will make up a combined 3,328 processor Unix system with 1.3 petabytes(!) of storage space. And this is only the beginning..."
Even the Internet Wayback Machine with its 10 billion web pages can claim only 100 TB (.1 PB). We could fit thirteen archives on it.
A use for this type of power and storage is simulating nuclear detonation. It's possible we noo longer have to actually detonate nukes on a test basis.
If I weren't nailed to the penis, I'd be pushing up the daisies!
Remember back in 69 when a few government agencies and universities put together a small little network called "ARPANet?"
It started off with something like four nodes. Look where it is today.
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