Grid Computing Coming Of Age

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 15, 2003 @02:37PM from the upside-of-supersizing dept.

ravenousbugblatter writes "The New York Times online has an article discussing grid computing and recent advances made by Dr. Ian Foster, among others. The article compares the state of grid computing over the internet to where the internet was in 1994, which was soon after the development of the software for the use of URL's, HTML, and HTTP. Predictions are made in the article that in the near future the massive power of grid computing will be available to anyone with an internet connection, not just to big companies that can afford to hire HP and Sun to run a grid project for them."

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Could the powers-that-be... by MoThugz · 2003-07-15 14:42 · Score: 4, Funny

please consider setting up Grid Computing section! ...so that I can finally filter it!

Thanks in advance.

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Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-15 14:51 · Score: 1, Funny

>> Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

Wow! Imagine your karma going down!
You mean by djupedal · 2003-07-15 15:04 · Score: 4, Funny

...that bastard Scott is right?

The network really is the computer?

Where'd I put that mousepad......
"Woodstock of the grid?" Really? by Audent · 2003-07-15 15:05 · Score: 2, Funny

"It was the Woodstock of the grid -- everyone not sleeping for three days, running around naked and shagging in a kind of scientific performance art," said Dr. Larry Smarr, director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, who was the program chairman for the conference.

no wonder it took so long to develop.

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Ah, sweet consent... by Fux+the+Pengiun · 2003-07-15 15:12 · Score: 3, Funny

It's about time grid computing become of age. I've been waiting to hit that for years.

Sincerely,

A dirty old mainframe

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Re:Read between the hype.. by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-15 15:36 · Score: 2, Funny

My load average is 3 per day, more if Baywatch is on TV.
oh my god... by jx100 · 2003-07-15 15:38 · Score: 5, Funny

SKYNET LIVES!!!!
Re:NYT site requires reg...so let's violate DMCA! by yelohbird · 2003-07-15 15:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Tsk tsk...what a blatant example of a violation of DMCA right here on /. This so misrepresents the law-abiding nature of the /. population ;-)

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Re:Does the average user care? by Lord_Dweomer · 2003-07-15 15:49 · Score: 4, Funny

"But for Joe Schmoe who surfs the web and reads his e-mail, what's the big deal?"
How else will they get the computing power to handle the AI for Clippy in the next version of windows?
"I notice you haven't done anything in a while. Would you like me to:"
-Calculate the meaning of life?
-Cure cancer?
-Run Carnivore and send the answers back to our nations great protectors?
No thanks, I'll pass.

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Software for URLs? by subreality · 2003-07-15 19:50 · Score: 2, Funny

... software for the use of URL's, HTML, and HTTP ...
I think I heard someone refer to it as a "web browser" once.
SWMD@Home by Mandelbrute · 2003-07-15 22:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Use those unused CPU cycles in the search for disappearing African Uranium!
Re:Embarassingly Parallel WAS: Seti@Home by jonfelder · 2003-07-16 05:02 · Score: 2, Funny

I don't get it...the man sits around for 9 months and then a woman comes along and poof a baby is born?

(1 woman + 1 man) * 9 months = 1 baby

Order of operations man! Gotta get those parenthesis right.