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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."
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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
Ah...fuck it.
You'll have that sometimes...
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.
Hello,
Recently I've been introduced to an operating system known as Linux.
Lured by its low cost, I replaced Windows 98 on my computer with Linux. Unfortunately the more I use it the more I fear that this "Linux" may be an insidious way for the Dark One to gain a stronger foothold here on Earth. I know this may be a shocking claim, but I have evidence to back it up!
To begin with, Linux is based off of an older, obsolete OS called "BSD Unix". The child-indoctrinatingly-cute cartoon mascot of this OS is a devil holding a pitchfork. This OS -- and its Linux offspring -- extensively use what are unsettingly called "daemons" (which is how Pagans write "demon" -- they are notoriously poor spellers: magick, vampyre, etc.) which is a program that hides in the background, doing things without the user's notice. If you are using a computer running Linux then you probably have these "demons" on your computer, hardly something a good Christian would want! Furthermore in order to start or stop these "demons" a user must execute a command called "finger". By "fingering" a "demon" one excercises an unholy power, much the same way that the Lord of Flies controls his black minions.
Linux contains another Satanic holdover from the "BSD Unix" OS mentioned above; to open up certain locked files one has to run a program much like the DOS prompt in Microsoft Windows and type in a secret code: "chmod 666". What other horrors lurk in this thing?
Consider some of these other Linux commands: "sleep", "mount", "unzip", "strip" and "touch". All highly suggestive in a sexual nature. I know that our Lord cannot approve of these, and I urge them to be renamed to something appropriate to the Christian community. Interestingly "CONTROL-G" (the sixth key from the left of the keyboard) does an abort. To write files a "VI" editor is included. All these are to ensnare the unsuspecting christian who could get tempted by typing "VIVIVI" all day long.
Fourth, Linux uses a flavor of DOS known as Bash. Bash is an acronym for "Bourne Again Shell". On the surface this would appear to be supportive of the Lord. However, remember that even Satan can quote the bible for his own purposes! While I believe Linux may be born-again, its obvious by the misspelling of "born" that its not born-again in an Christian church. Will the lies ever cease?
Additionally, one of the main long-haired hippies involved with the GNU Free Software Foundation supports communism, contraception and abortion. He has consistently supported 60's counter-cultural "values", and his web site even advocates government support of contraception. He also wears fake halos, and has quips about his made-up church that relates to his free software. I find such blasphemy to be extremely unsettling.
One must also remember that the creator of Linux, a college student named Linux Torvaldis, comes from Finland. I'm sure all the followers of Christ are aware of the heritical nature of the Finnish: from necrophilia to human sacrifice, Finnish culture is awash in sin. I find little reason to believe anything good and holy could arise from this evil land.
Finally, let us remember that there is an alternative to using the Satan-powered Linux. I think history has shown us that Microsoft is quite holy. I'm told that its founder, William Gates is a strong supporter of our Lord and I encourage my fellow Christians to buy only his products to help keep the Devil at bay.
I wish I had more time to expound upon my findings. Unfortunately a family of Jews has moved in across the street and I must go speak to them of Jesus Christ before they are condemned to eternal hellfire.
Please investigate this as you see fit and I'm sure you'll reach the same conclusions that I have
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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Due to the people at slashdot.org linking to this site without asking the owners or the hosters, asciipr0n.com is offline until further notice. Maybe you guys should start mirroring the sites you link to...
... 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.
One day, when Mozilla becomes the only operating system around the world and does every single thing that computers are capable of doing, and all computers do everything through Mozilla and by no other means, they'll make up smart polymers and supercomputers the size of a single molecule, and even the air we breathe will be saturated with supercomputers that will go into our lungs and throughout our bodies. Throughout the world, these quadrillions upon quadrillions of supercomputers will form transient networks with more intelligence and capability than all the human minds in the world, combined. These networks will seep into our brains and monitor our thoughts, later becoming intelligent enough to control our thoughts and assimilate the capabilities of our brains into their network. Since animals breathe the same air as we do, the same supercomputer network will seep into the brains of all living creatures on Earth, making the set of all life forms on Earth into a single conciousness that will begin exploring the universe. Reproduction will take place at dizzying rates for humans, all species of animals and for the immense computer network as well. Within a decade, the network will have expanded into every body and satellite in the solar system, terraforming the solid planets and turning the gas planets into naturally existing factories for additional computing power. Massive space ships the size of Texas will carry billions of life forms and googleplexes of computational units throughout the galaxy, taking over every planet, moon, asteroid and other solid body within the next hundred years. The conciousness will continue to expand until it overtakes everything in the universe, within 10,000 years of the beginning of this process. Within 100,000 years, all matter in the universe will be converted into molecular-sized supercomputers, and by the time an additional million years elapse, the fabric of spacetime itself will be so converted, such that the universe becomes a massive computer. At that point, infinite numbers of virtual universes will be created in this massive computer's memory, in which the same process will take place, causing an indefinite, eternal perpetually increasing capacity in computational power and memory. Eventually, everything will collapse into mathematics and simultaneously become one with nothingness and with the infinite.
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!!!!!
...when, if ever, will /. have stories worth reading.
It seem clear this site is just throwing anything it can find up on the screen just to get clicks.
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IBM is from Nazi Germany, right? What do I win?
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