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Virtual Grid Supercomputer Goes (Partly) Online

Posted by timothy on from the assembling-skynet dept.

hotsauce writes "The BBC is reporting that CERN (the guys who invented the Web) are working on a virtual supercomputer called the Grid. The Grid taps computing power from 12 countries to process data from a new supercollider that will simulate parts of the Big Bang. Phase One of the Grid just went online."

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  1. CERN didn't invent the web.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Al Gore did

  2. The Grid? by Jason1729 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Time for a lot of That sounds like the Matrix jokes

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  3. Power to the Grid! by richie2000 · · Score: 3, Funny
    The Grid taps computing power from 12 countries

    And electrical power from how many?

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    I for one welcome our new Grid ove *thwap*
    But, just imagine a Beow *thud*
    In Soviet Russia, the Gridski compu *wham*
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  4. Nobody can be told what the Grid is... by WIAKywbfatw · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...you have to see it for yourself.

    From Reference.com:

    Entry: matrix
    Function: noun
    Definition: origin
    Synonyms: cast, forge, form, grid, model, mold, origin, pattern, source, womb
    Concept: origin/source
    Source: Roget's Interactive Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.0.0).

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  5. Mmm, supercollider by Spunk · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm getting a hadron just thinking about it.

    1. Re:Mmm, supercollider by BigBadBri · · Score: 2, Funny
      You sad boson.

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  6. Re:Under-hyped by Max+Romantschuk · · Score: 1, Funny

    The USA also has a good way of claiming innovations as its own, by "Americanising" everything. So, for instance, most people - Americans and non-Americans - think that most technological innovation during the last century has been American, whereas in actual fact much of it was just "absorbed" by America.

    It's not just technology... Pizza is a prime example. Some (fortunately not that many) Americans think it's an American thing.

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  7. Re:Under-hyped by stanmann · · Score: 1, Funny

    Einstein, of course, was an American, and like many other Americans, he was born somewhere else, and got here as quickly as he could.

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  8. Re:Distributed computing has been here for years by Bi()hazard · · Score: 2, Funny

    In fact, distributed computing and "grids" are older than you are.

    I'm 76, you insensitive clod!

    but according to ICDCS, it is older than my lesbian granddaughter.

  9. Re:Datagrid homepage by henben · · Score: 3, Funny
    Jesus, look at this.

    Here's their "intranet", which is publically accessible:

    http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/intrane t_home.htm

    You can't access all the reports, but you can get lots of design documents and stuff. It's done in FrontPage and riddled with spelling errors. Not promising.

  10. The good ol' days... by doublebackslash · · Score: 0, Funny

    I remember when a particle colider that generated 10MB of data was a beast, and a usefull particle colider could be built to fit and run on a tabletop. Now this beast is online, discovering new particles and whole new laws of physics, but my microwave still takes 30 sec to heat up my leftovers on High! Where is my particle accelerator, bacteria killing, INSTANT (300ms) Nuke-ro-wave! Is that to much to ask?

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  11. Correction by GreggBert · · Score: 2, Funny
    "The BBC is reporting that CERN (the guys who invented the Web)..."

    I thought Al Gore invented the Web as part of that Internet invention thingy of his.

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  12. Which parts? by aaaurgh · · Score: 2, Funny
    "...that will simulate parts of the Big Bang"

    Which parts? The "BA..." or the "...NG!" or the "What the f**k was that?" 8-)

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