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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after Deep Blue comes Deep Thought

[ElJosho]

Finally, IBM is building a computer powerful enought to answer the ultimate question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.

The ultimate question

[manseman]

some of the most fundamental questions about the nature of matter and the Universe.

I'll save them the effort.

42.

Specifically. . .

[Fritz Benwalla]

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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