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The 15-petabyte network behind the Cern atom smasher
News The Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid (LCG), a super high bandwidth network, will channel about 15 petabytes - 15 million gigabytes - of data from the LHC to about 5,000 scientists in 500 institutions every year for at least 10 years. [15 Jul 2008]
Investment bank races apps around the grid
News Lando told the Finexpo conference London: "The real definition of grid is not about a new distributed computing platform. Grid allows organisations to share that computing power - both in servers and desktops - and so reduce that waste.silicon.com... [25 Jan 2007]
World's biggest grid seeks secrets of the universe
News Discovering new types of particles can only be done by statistical analysis of the massive amounts of data the experiments will generate - which is where the LHC Computing Grid project comes in. The grid will use a four-tier model - data will be... [24 Nov 2005]
Grids go green
News Brunel University and Imperial College London are part of the GridCC organisation which is investigating how distributed computing can be used to create a real-time computing grid to coordinate inexpensive, reliable, cheap and sustainable energy... [18 Jan 2005]
Grid computing reaches new prime
News Distributed and grid computing have been of interest chiefly to the academic community, but it's becoming increasingly useful for commercial applications such as pharmaceutical research. But as resources get more formally attached to the pool, the... [03 Dec 2003]
IBM makes latest grid push
News Grid computing involves pooling the computing power of dozens, sometimes hundreds, of servers over a network to run programs more reliably and reduce the cost of maintaining data centres. IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and a handful of... [24 Sep 2003]
Grid computing overhyped says Fiorina
News Fiorina also sought to draw a line between grid computing and distributed computing, the latter being a more than 20-year-old concept, she said. Grid computing has sped through all the phases of a new technology's life cycle at this week's... [12 Sep 2003]
5 years ago… Use your PC to search for alien life
News As a model of how effective grid computing can be, SETI has breathed new life into research, with more and more projects adopting the distributed computing model and major companies getting involved in rolling out kit for all things 'grid'. [04 Aug 2003]
Sun goes back to its high-performance roots
News Khan enumerated Sun products appropriate to the market - everything from workstations to grid software to groups of massive multiprocessor Sun Fire 15K servers joined with the high-speed Sun Fire Link technology. [28 Apr 2003]
IBM and co tackle smallpox with grid computing
News If the Smallpox Research Grid can round up two million participants, the collective computing power could be as high as 1.1 petaflops, or 1.1 quadrillion calculations per second, the companies said. Grid' is now used to describe a range of systems... [05 Feb 2003]
Grid software gets business connection
News Other leaders of the Globus effort, which began in 1995, are Carl Kesselman, professor of computer science at the University of Southern California and director of USC's Center for Grid Technologies, and Steve Tuecke, lead architect of the Argonne... [15 Jan 2003]
Grid computing fights breast cancer
News The grid, called eDiamond, works on the distributed computing model made famous by the SETI (search for extra-terrestrial intelligence) initiative. IBM has teamed up with Oxford University and the UK government to launch a grid computing system... [14 Oct 2002]
UK science centre ushers in the age of the grid
News Parsons is concerned the private sector could hijack grid computing for its own financial gain, in a replication of what happened with the internet. Business could learn a thing or two about collaboration and grid computing from a project that has... [25 Apr 2002]
IBM builds grid to fight cancer
News IBM's distributed computing initiative has taken another step forward with the creation of a computing grid between the University of Pennsylvania and four hospitals to develop advanced methods of breast cancer diagnosis. [28 Nov 2001]
Supercomputer: tera-bly intelligent
News The Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF), will connect four IBM computer centres across the US to form one grid with the ability to process 13.6 trillion calculations per second. Teragrid will comprise of a grid of computing resources to allow... [10 Aug 2001]
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