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World's Largest Working Computing Grid
fenimor writes "UK particle physicists claim that they will demonstrate the world's largest, working computing Grid with over 6,000 computers at 78 sites internationally. The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid is built to deal with 15 Petabytes of data each year from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), currently under construction at CERN in Geneva. 'This is a great achievement for particle physics and for e-Science,' says Professor Tony Doyle, leader of GridPP. 'Our next aim is to scale up the computing power available by a factor of ten'."
the optimization flags on one of those,....
Finally, something to run doom3 on. Though I may still have to turn shadows off...
But let's talk about something serious: how many FPS in Doom III?
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Mmmmm... That might be worth the upgrade then...
finally something to deal with those pesky environmentalists.... :-P
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imagine a beowulf cluster of Half-Life 2 preloads! ;-)
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I found a picture of the system here. You may have to zoom in a bit to see individual machines.
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Getting the physics right has been an important part of many of our favorite 3D games lately...
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Did anyone else read that as the Large Hardon Collider Computing Grid, or was it just me?
for when your particle collider needs that little push over the cliff..
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Erm, I think I read that wrong.
...and also the SI unit for child pornography!
Can it run Longhorn?
Imagine if they had a super big worldwide "grid" of computers all connected via some common protocol! It would be amazing!
Meh.
What I'd like to know is: who has the largest non-working computer grid. My guess is that it would be a lot bigger.
640 petabytes of memory should be enough for anyone, ever.
Although, if 640kb sounded anything like 640 petabytes does now, I'll have to rape moores law over a barrell and say I doubt we will ever have computers with 640petabytes of ram as standard.
Of course, I say that in jest, I would love for future people to read this post and laugh thier tits off (some futuristic velcro tits no doubt)
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