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IBM & CERN openlab for DataGrid Applications
Jules V.D. writes "CERN and IBM today announced that IBM is joining the CERN openlab for DataGrid applications to collaborate in creating a massive data-management system built on Grid computing.IBM's innovative storage virtualization and file management technology, will play a pivotal role in this collaboration, which aims to create a data file system far larger than exists today to help scientists at CERN understand some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the Universe."
Excellent.
Much like the appeal of Seti at home was searching for AI... People now have a choice which distributed net they want to support.
Its a system, similar to voting, that will have every distributed net in the future trying to please.
I forsee distributed nets of the future attempting to produce results, in order to keep people interested and donating their computer cycles.
Its an interesting system, that works a bit like deomocracy.
God spoke to me
Finally, IBM is building a computer powerful enought to answer the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
I'll save them the effort.
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create a data file system far larger than exists today to help scientists at CERN
How about installing larger computers and storage systems at CERN, instead of assuming that other centers will give away their tight resources to CERN.
CERN is definitely one of the coolest places on Earth. For a bid a couple of years ago, I had to do some reasearch regarding their storage requirements and data management facilities. These people produce 10 *Peta*bytes* of data per year. For us mortals to understand that number, it's got to be converted to gigabytes per second: 300+ GB/s. On the basement we've got a 2 TB RAID. The people at CERN fill that baby in less than 7 seconds. No, scratch that. Our RAID (dual fibrechannel 10000 rpm SCSI discs) tops at 120 MB/s. See what I mean? Just try to grasp the kind of SAN these people have in order to move 300 GB/s arround.
Filling application right away.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't we going to get a taste of IBM's Grid technology on Sony's spanking new Playstation 3?
This system stores, crunches, and distributes data generated by the Large Hadron Collider. They generate a million gig a year in data, and need to make it available in some functional way to physicists. Manditory groovy collider pic here.
A major collaborator on this stuff is Globus which provides an API for grid applications. Same people who are partners with IBM in the butterfly.net game grid.
Maybe MTU can use it to store their students' Kazaa archives.
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Believe me, I'm as surprised by my comment as you are.
... because as they say on their web they are far beyond p2p networks in data sharing. This is interesting and I wonder how long it will take RIAA&MPAA to sue thier U. S. based sponsors for developing technology that might be used to infringe copyright law.
Ha! everything might be used to infringe copyright laws : floppies, CD-R, paper, analog tapes...
RIAA&MPAA can sue my ass. It's able to infringe a good deal of the music industry.
1 Petabyte! Thats a lotta porn!
...and they are used to bring them more money - CD-R, CD Writers, xerox machines - they sue them all. Remember the hysteria around videotapes?
I think someone will create post-p2p device/protocol/software, which will use some of the grid computing and grid storage technology to share not only data, but to sell Your processing power, storage or data via any kind of internetwork. And as the GSM providers are able to crate CUGs. there will be some kind of closed user groups, which will trade data, they do not own.
The question is, if these organisations like MPAA, RIAA will have enough power to terminate any research before it proves its benefits.
CERN is run by the French and Germans govement! Since they decided to leave the people of Iraq with a cruel dictator because of there own slefish motvies and cowardise, ibm should not sell and eqipment to them!!!
More about IBM and Cern- Gridcomputingplanet
Cern and Java- VnunetMore about Cern-Hepwww
The Large Electron Positron Collider at Cern-Hepwww
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade.
-- Jack Handy
errrm, you know where ibm is from right?
I thought the war was to get rid of Sadam's weapons of mass destruction. Ooops they're aren't any...lets call it a war of liberation.
do your homework
20 member states running it form all over Europe
stop supporting microsoft with pirating their software!!!!!
IBM is from Nazi Germany, right? What do I win?
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