disCERNing Data Analysis

technodummy writes: "Wired is reporting how CERN is driving the Linux-based, EU funded, DataGRID project. And no, they say, it's nothing like Seti@Home. The description on the site of the project is: ' The objective is to enable next generation scientific exploration which requires intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities.'" If you're interested in this, check out the Fermi Lab work with LinuxNetworkX data as well as the all-powerful Google search on the Fermi Collider Linux project. As jamie points out, "Colliders produce *amazing* amounts of data in *amazingly* short time periods... on the order of "here's a gigabyte, you have 10 milliseconds to pull whatever's valuable out of it before the next gigabyte arrives".

Technology transfer

[Matey-O]

And when this stuff becomes comodity hardware, Quake can have a Real Quantum Effects Railgun(tm)!

Here's how you do it...

[Anonymous Coward]

Daisy-chain 10^400 Timex Sinclair computers. Make sure you buy the preassembled kind cause otherwise it would take too long to set up.

I was there!

[GroovBird]

I can see it already.

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<Hem0s> Hey jamie
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<jamie> hey hemos
<Hem0s> whazzup?
<jamie> oh got this gr8 link here but got no access to the backend right now. can u help me out?
<Hem0s> sure thing.. what you got?
<CmdrTaco> jamie a/s/l?
<jamie> i found this link about this grid computing whatsimagigger and i just thought it's cool ... u know linux and all
<Hem0s> u uh
<CmdrTaco> jamie a/s/l?
<jamie> shut up taco
<Hem0s> so what's the link?
<timothy> boooooring
<jamie> i found it while zapping through wired somehow my browser crashed on me again can u go find it?
<Hem0s> sure ... hold on a sec
<CmdrTaco> timothy a/s/l?
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<jamie> gotta tell you i LOVE that post you did on OpenGL a minute ago
<Hem0s> thx ... can't find it though
<jamie> it's there somewhere
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<jamie> ok lemme try again
<Hem0s> hurry jamie i already fired up mah mozilla dont know how long she stays put
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<jamie> here it is ... CERN is driving the Linux-based, EU funded, DataGRID project.
<jamie> The objective is to enable next generation scientific exploration which requires intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities.'
<Hem0s> great stuff... lemme copy'npaste here..
<jamie> somethin bout amazing amounts of stuff in short timed periods ... like you know here's a gig fill it and you've got a split second to pull the goods outtathere
<Hem0s> you don't mind if i edit this a bit don't you
<jamie>gotta go bye!
<Hem0s> you don't mind if i redo this a bit don't you?
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<CmdrTaco> lookin for cyber. msg me
<Hem0s> great ... now i gotta work this
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