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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. At last by modest+apricot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally, something to run doom3 on. Though I may still have to turn shadows off...

  2. able to handle 15 petabytes a year? by djfray · · Score: 5, Funny

    finally something to deal with those pesky environmentalists.... :-P

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  3. Coordination by erick99 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I wonder how they are coordinating the use of all of those computers? The article doesn't say that they will be exclusively for this project and, if they are not, then that is some task to have them all online and not otherwise busy. They must have some damned serious storage vaults as well if they are generating 15 Petabytes a year of data, which doesn't include the output from processing. Still, it must be something to have all of the "horsepower" at your command.

    Cheers,

    Erick

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  4. Large Hardon Collider?! by Hitmen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Erm, I think I read that wrong.