Superfast Internet from CERN W00t!
The Times reports that CERN, the place responsible from bringing us Le Internet has gone and done it again. They’ve invented the Grid, which is a system that works much faster than the normal Internet.
The grid isn’t to be made for use by consumers initially but is intended to analyse billions of Mbs of data from from the Large Hadron Collider which is attempting to discover some particle that is proving ellusive (I have no idea what this is but the Register does). But what does really interest me is the fact that this technology could be exploited by telecoms providers to help increase broadband speeds.
Apparently, nobody will bother saving anything to their own computer and just save it to the grid instead. Sounds good to me, I kind of already do this with Google apps. It essentially means that we’re another step closer to ubiquitous computing, if you’re into that kind of thing.
CERN Accellerator Complex
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid_computing
ps. I think you’re making several grand leaps between CERN, grid computing, ubiquitous computing and Google apps… but it won’t matter since the whole world is going to be sucked into a black hole created by particle accelerators!
Couldn’t agree more.
CERN did not bring us the Internet, they brought us the World Wide Web. The Internet was a spin off from the ArpNet (Military).