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World's largest network goes online | | 2008/09/30 | | A network of 100,000 computers at 140 sites across 33 countries has been unveiled.
Known as The Grid, it will first be used to analyse data from the widely-publicised 'big-bang' experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, and cost in the region of €500 (£398) million.
In the future its use will be relatively restricted while the wider internet networks update to the fibre optic technologies that will be required to take advantage of its vast processing power.
Access would then be subject to extremely high levels of security, with the use of sophisticated anti-virus and website monitoring software, for example.
Dr Bob Jones, a scientist for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) who are behind the network and the LHC project, told the Times: "What the Grid allows you to do is not only access the information [on other computers, via the world wide web], but make use of their computing resources and power."
Possible future uses for the Grid might include the fight against cancer, it has been suggested, as it could speed up parts of the process. It is already being used to predict earthquakes by analysing huge quantities of seismic data.  |
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