First, the Web ... now, the Grid

DW, Cleveland, Ohio — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:41:57 GMT

Welcome to the MATRIX

First, the Web ... now, the Grid

Guy S. Newell — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:35:42 GMT

We're still trying to figure out how to lock down the WWW and make it 'safe' for the casual user. The GRID as described sounds like a Petri dish to me. Fortunately, it'll be full mostly of data from meaningless physics experiments. Later, if oil companies or financial institutions can be duped into using it, the real trouble will start.

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Vijay Teach Me — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:40:00 GMT

Now thats a grid I am talking about. Joining the
LHC @ Home public project.

What are other ways for general public to use, maybe they should not use it, first research than general ppl

Vijay

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Randy C, Deep in California's Mother Lode — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:42:21 GMT

Grid, Linked computers?, Rise of a malevolent Grid? Sky net! (okaay, for those of you not into action movies, think Terminator). The day of computer self awareness is drawing closer.

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S. B. Stein E. B. NJ — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 16:10:47 GMT

What is to happen to the exisiting physical structure? This states that everything will be moved over to fiber optics which will have more capacity. Is this only for scientific research facilities?

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Dan, Dallas, Texas — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:25:42 GMT

It'll only take hackers seconds to dowload your entire hard drive and steal all your personal information

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Alan Sheets, Loveland CO — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:44:28 GMT

From the picture in the article, it looks like they will be doing a lot of cluster-based computing? Is this true, and what is their choice of OS?

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Paul J.S. Beaubien Victoria B.C. Canada — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:53:06 GMT

All this without completely understanding Electricity

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puttputt — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:16:41 GMT

I love grit!

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Mike Schmidt. Village of Lakewood, IL — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:14:07 GMT

I am actually suprised at the "slowness" of the network associated with a project like this. 1.6 Gb/sec, is 12.8 Gbps, which already exceeds the 10 Gbps fiberoptic network. So unless they have multiple runs, and some sort of "processing" to split the date into multiple streams, they have already maxed out their network, or are hampered in performance by having to divvy the data across multiple lines. Bad architecture imo.

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Alan Sheets, Loveland CO — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:38:41 GMT

Dan from Dallas: Over what kind of network will Grid users be able to download a 100GB hard drive in seconds? Because, if that were ever possible, that would mean some incredibly quick download times during MY web browsing! I'd welcome it.

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Ron Jeremy, Hollywood, CA — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 21:13:11 GMT

Every last frame of porn ever filmed stored in one place.....the Grid can take control of it and parcel it out to those that comply with its wishes....the evil possiblities are endless.

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docsmith, Vernal, Utah — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:03:52 GMT

Evil intents aside, we shouldn't be so concerned with how it could be mis-used that we fail to use and develop it further. I look forward to the day when we figure out the human brain is the best computer ever made.

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Christine — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:33:34 GMT

Eh, ATX cases are a serious waste of space. They should take a page from google and just use bare aluminium trays. With creative wiring you should be able to fit 84 dual socket quad core boards per rack.

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Noel Goyette, Fairfax, VA — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:15:02 GMT

Hilarious.

Reminds me of Al Gore, except it steals the true earned credit for the real innovation at CERN itself for HTTP.

I think the term "World Wide Web" confused the tehnical illerati into believing that what was invented was a network, not a new way of interfacing between humans their machines and information, and other humans their machines and their information.

So what is innovative here? Looks like getting a bunch of bureaucratic science organizations to play nice, so they can get lots of taxpayer $$$$. Maybe they will buy a DNS to resolve "EGEE" in the middle of a URL.

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Bob, Miami, FL — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:09:26 GMT

Anyone see Terminator 3? Skynet was the program, using Grid like P2P connections to launch nukes and exterminate humanity. Is this the first step?

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Rob S. Los Angeles California — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:16:02 GMT

Pete Townsend included his version of The Grid in his 1993 album 'Psychderelict'.

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oops, lincoln, ca — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:40:39 GMT

get real, people! the sky will not fall. the chinese are not trying to control the computer networks. our government is not trying to use the grid (as in, OMG!!) to soak up and analyze all the data recorded about us online, from simple searches to complex tribal behavior vis a vie the new social order arising from networked behavior. i could go on, but do you really want them to have a central repository for mining information about you? just think what bush and his evile minions would do with that data...

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Bob Brookhaven MS — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:39:34 GMT

it looks like arnold will finally have his way. ski net is taking over!!!!!!

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Russell Crow, Phoenix, Arizona — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:57:52 GMT

Just think all the world's music in one place! The ultimate iTunes. Then when you want a song you could find any song or type of musical composition ever created without having to go on a wild goose chase. It's a nice dream but I doubt the record companies would ever co-operate.