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- hcarlens, on 06/02/2008, -4/+55Sweet, I'll finally be able to play crysis.
- iamvahe, on 06/02/2008, -2/+34What is the difference between this and "Distributed Computing"? Don't Folding@Home or SETI@Home do this already?
- ThinkBox, on 06/02/2008, -3/+24Wow, thanks for adding to the Digg community!
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THANKS! - NinjaNato, on 06/02/2008, -0/+21The Grid uses another high-speed/capacity infrastructure as well as existing technology.
Tier 1 of the Grid is a global fiber infrastructure that runs in parallel to the Internet. This infrastructure is used to shift large amounts of data quickly (10Gbps) to connected nodes.
From there, data is passed through existing infrastructure and protocols (the Internet) where it is further distributed. - Morghin, on 06/02/2008, -1/+19Why did the video look like it was made during the 80's if this is so new? Not that it really is all that new; http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ has been around for a while...
- matroosje, on 06/02/2008, -1/+19I hope the grid will have better background music in the future
- MaxMWood, on 06/02/2008, -0/+14Couple of photos from my trip to CERN:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maxwood/sets/72157603 ... - Stavrosian, on 06/02/2008, -0/+14If people have been using bittorrent clients to harness the power of your computer, may I suggest a firewall?
- tomboy501, on 06/01/2008, -0/+14The GridCafe site has tons of info on this: http://gridcafe.web.cern.ch/gridcafe/whatisgrid/wh ...
- Alexbalix, on 06/02/2008, -7/+20Why do I get a SkyNet feel from this....
- MaxMWood, on 06/02/2008, -1/+10Grid was basically created because no single computer could handle all of the data produced from the LHC, when it's switched on. So they are linking up all the super computers in the world to combine each computers processing power. Its a gamble but at this time there just isnt any other option.
- crazyjake, on 06/02/2008, -4/+13i'm making my geek pilgrimage to cern in july. can't wait to get away from all of the stupid people around here.
- NinjaNato, on 06/02/2008, -4/+13The Grid = brute force in under a second :)
- wiifm69, on 06/02/2008, -0/+8You mean every time when I have a new particle physics experiment to run.... boy that will save me some time
- Harelin, on 06/02/2008, -0/+6Folding@Home, SETI and so forth are not examples of what this video speaks of. While distributed computing is a 'branch' of grid computing... we're talking about a different architecture here. Google it.
- smellinator, on 06/02/2008, -1/+6At 3 minutes and 43 seconds into the video, you can watch what one physicist is typing into the grid:
"a-/-s-/-l? w-h-a-t- - a-r-e- -y-o-u- -w-e-a-r-i-n-g-?" - blast_flame, on 06/02/2008, -1/+6But what if everyone has the same idea you do?
- McShr3dd3r, on 06/02/2008, -0/+5Can it divide by zero?
- fandyboy, on 06/02/2008, -2/+7Doesn't the BOINC platform (seti@home etc..) do this already?
- joeydoo, on 06/02/2008, -0/+5Sorry, not even the grid will be able to run crysis.... such a thing would require an update! Crysis is too system intensive for updates apparently.
- halfdirt, on 06/02/2008, -0/+5This video looks cheesy -today-. Imagine how cheesy it will look if/when 'The Grid' really takes off, and seems as prevalent as the Internet. There are tons of "This is the Internet" videos that look silly in a similar way today.
- wonderbriefs, on 06/02/2008, -1/+5Wanna tell me how to share my CPU and RAM processes via bittorrent, smart guy?
- NailToTheX, on 06/02/2008, -2/+6almost infinite computer power? thats a really big number! exactly how many zigaflops is that?
- inactive, on 06/02/2008, -2/+6Yesterday, I was browsing around and found the nearest Grid node to me. The webpages for them are quite neat
http://goc.grid.sinica.edu.tw/gstat/ALBERTA-LCG2/ - coolcole93, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4In 25 years time we'll look back at that vid and LOL at the crappy technology
- Takuro, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4... and on the 7th day Bonzi Buddy was transferred throughout the supercomputer network, spelling doom upon humankind.
- wonderbriefs, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4SETI@Home is to The Grid as a Legion Baseball is to Sports
- JohnnyXmas, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4The entire GOAL of The Grid is to overcome traffic and distance. Distributed computing has been around for ages, so that's not the point of this. The point is to create an insanely high-speed, undiluted cluster of processing and storage units.
- biggerapple3am, on 06/02/2008, -2/+6"Currently The Grid is being developed by Cyberdyne Systems. Scientists are also looking into world defensive uses for The Grid."
- SPARTACVS, on 06/02/2008, -0/+4The tactical hub for 01. The machines have already won.
- brodieface, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4The Powerpoint-esque flying text characters at the start signalled to me that this had to be around a decade old.
- saadshamim, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3it's funny how they make something so nerdy, look so cool.
- Nollykin, on 06/03/2008, -0/+3BURN
- dvicklund, on 06/02/2008, -1/+4Neat, but indecipherable to regular people, apparently.
Why can't scientists ever figure out the formula for good style? - daeus, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3The foundation of Machine City?
- blast_flame, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3Not quite. Processing done through the grid would be laggier than stuff done in house due to the distances the data needs to travel so it would still pay to have a powerful computer.
- Thorsten, on 06/02/2008, -0/+3yeah thats about the idea, but I am guessing the protocoll and stuff weill be different
- gfxl, on 06/02/2008, -3/+6Isn't this how Folding@Home works?
- Nollykin, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2brute force password breakers, anyone?
- Nollykin, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2DUN.. DUN.. DUNNNNNNNNN
- Shimoniskey, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2To be really precise, folding@home does not use the BOINC platform, instead opting for their own, but most @home projects do. Some, like the world community grid, use both their own client, and the BOINC client.
- tnoy, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Until Apple comes out with a new iMac with a new brushed aluminum case that is even brushier than the previous.
- Thoku, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2No, what I was saying is that getting conventionally linear programs to perform in a distributed environment is very difficult and the compilers to do that for you is still experimental.
- Nollykin, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2Scary, really.
- Culyt, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2A resource brokers doesn't need to be anything special. It takes a lot to transfer 10000TeraBytes of data, but it takes almost noting to reference it. Plus I would assume the resource brokers are distributed like DNS servers are now days.
- scairborn, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2AAAAAhhhh. Okay now I get it. Thanks! :)
I'm not even being that sarcastic bitch digger either. This actually makes sense to me now. - Apollyon0810, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2Are you saying parallel processing is still experimental?
- SteveMax, on 06/02/2008, -0/+2Data analysis is inherently parallel. On an Alice collision (heavy ions at gigantic energies), you get millions of tracks. Speaking very broadly, you could have each CPU of the grid analyzing one of those tracks individually, so your process will end in hours instead of years.
In general, if you program for supercomputers, you program in a highly parallelized way. This is the only way to harness the power of a 100-odd CPU box. - bracketdash, on 06/02/2008, -1/+3Then everyone will be playing Crysis!
- glinsvad, on 06/03/2008, -0/+2While they may be experimental, there are thousands of brilliant applications of parallel computing e.g. in quantum physics simulations, large linear algebraic systems, finite element analysis etc.
The real problem is achieving the same speed-up in grid computing as that of computer clusters or MPPs. -
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