Imagine that you no longer wanted to surf the World Wide Web because there was something better.
That's the idea from the same people who designed the Web in 1990.
For regular Internet users, it may seem far-fetched. But scientists in Switzerland are about to cut the ribbons on a brand new world wide computing system they claim will be 10,000 times faster than broadband. It'll be called "the Grid."
For the past seven years, physicists at the CERN particle physics laboratory have been developing the new system as an adjunct of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Ultimately, scientists hope that research at the LHC will help them understand the "big bang," the event that led to creation of the universe. In developing the LHC, they found that they would need to process vast amounts of data, more than any existing computer system on earth could handle. Using dedicated fiber optics and new routers that could handle the load, they developed the Grid to handle the trillions of bits of data that will soon be coming in.
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That's the idea from the same people who designed the Web in 1990.
For regular Internet users, it may seem far-fetched. But scientists in Switzerland are about to cut the ribbons on a brand new world wide computing system they claim will be 10,000 times faster than broadband. It'll be called "the Grid."
For the past seven years, physicists at the CERN particle physics laboratory have been developing the new system as an adjunct of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Ultimately, scientists hope that research at the LHC will help them understand the "big bang," the event that led to creation of the universe. In developing the LHC, they found that they would need to process vast amounts of data, more than any existing computer system on earth could handle. Using dedicated fiber optics and new routers that could handle the load, they developed the Grid to handle the trillions of bits of data that will soon be coming in.
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