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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. Linux Journal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Linux Journal has an excellent writeup on this. Check it out over here

  2. Oh my God! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I just imagined it!

  3. Re:At last by camcorder · · Score: 0, Troll

    That project must have been funded by m$ to make at least one system that will be able to run Longhorn. No need to mention you'll be able to run kernel 4.0 or whatever on your p100 box anyways.

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