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Towards a World Wide Grid?
Roland Piquepaille writes "In recent months, the concept of 'cloud computing' was all the buzz. European researchers think about another name, the World Wide Grid, which could run on top of the Internet. In an article to appear soon, ICT Results will report about the g-Eclipse project. As the scientists said, 'the g-Eclipse project aims to build an integrated workbench framework to access the power of existing Grid infrastructures. The framework will be built on top of the reliable eco-system of the Eclipse community to enable a sustainable development.' The project started in July 2006 and was successfully completed in June 2008 for a total cost of €2.5 million, including a EU contribution of €1.96 million."
These Italian schemes are a threat to America and everything Americans hold dear: our children, our base-ball parks, and our Hot Dogs. I say that these "nets" should be banned from the American intern net for security and moral purposes.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
(Man, isn't everyone tired of that joke by now? Oh, you are? Sorry.)
Since it seems pretty clear the whole point of TFA was to draw attention to this project, kind of like free advertising I figure I'll just jump on the bandwagon.
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Could this be Web 3.0?
Sig this!
I'm not sure how you failed to understand the summary. It was fully buzzword-compliant.
I only got as far as:
That was enough for me
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Total lack of understanding indeed.
It's almost as if there are applications outside the domain that you describe, for which this would be useful. And as if this is not being aimed at consumers at all.
Tsk tsk.
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A world wide grid makes me think about that old science fiction story where the grid finally is connected and the first question someone asks is:
"Is there a God"
And gets the answer:
"Now there is"
(Reservations for the accuracy in my quotes)
Not that it's likely right now. But if there is a world-wide grid then there is in theory an awful lot of computing power available. It's interesting to see what can be done with such a solution.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.