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Grid of 100,000 computers heralds new internet dawn

Seeded on Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:15 AM EDT
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A network of 100,000 computers providing the greatest data processing capacity yet unleashed has been created to cope with information pouring from the world's largest machine.

The Grid is the latest evolution of the internet and the world wide web and computer scientists will announce on Friday that it is ready to be connected to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

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bmvaughn

It's going to become self-aware !

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Reply#1 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 11:18 AM EDT
JoeGrinD

I for one would like to welcome our grid computing overlords and would like to remind them; that as a member of Newsvine; I can recruit workers to toil in their fennel mines.

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#1.1 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 1:45 PM EDT
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Jimmy James

You can't stop SkyNet, we merely postponed the inevitable

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Reply#2 - Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:15 PM EDT
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