World's Largest Working Computing Grid

Posted by michael on Sunday September 5, 2004 @10:25AM from the more-power dept.

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'."

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Re:At last by LighthouseJ · 2004-09-05 10:32 · Score: 0, Offtopic

man, I wish I had some mod points left, you'd get a Funny from me.
Shortly after revealing their grid.... by rubberbando · 2004-09-05 10:42 · Score: 1, Offtopic

they found themselves being upstaged by claria or some other spyware company with their legion of zombie computers.. :-P

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