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World's Largest Working Computing Grid

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Dominoes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    All I can say is: domino effect

    take one down, pass it around, total-1 computers on the net

    1. Re:Dominoes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      They're going to order pizza while they wait for the results?

  2. Re:At last by LighthouseJ · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    man, I wish I had some mod points left, you'd get a Funny from me.

  3. MOD DOWN PARENT PYRAMID SCHEMER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    /. != ad service

  4. Re:able to handle 15 petabytes a year? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most of all I'd have you know that animal rights activist != environmentalist. Animal rights activists are for the most part a bunch of nuts who fight for the misguided notion of Survival of the Cutest. Environmentalists on the other hand fight for - d'uh - the environment.

  5. Shortly after revealing their grid.... by rubberbando · · 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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  6. Re:Linux Journal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Modded down again by the rascist censorship Nazis that don't want us to share our Holy Gay Nigger Seed with the masses. Watch for more .info domains pointing to the GNAA while they're free!