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Virtual Grid Supercomputer Goes (Partly) Online

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 30, 2003 @09:23PM 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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Re:Under-hyped by pubjames · 2003-09-30 23:29 · Score: 4, Informative

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

Einstein was born in 1879 and moved to America in 1931 at the age of 52.