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."

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Distributed networking

[CrazyJim0]

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.