Better, faster, more
Apr. 18th, 2008 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraThe LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is to be finished by summer. When it's up an running it will produce (aside from black holes;P) a lot of data. So much data in fact that they won't be able to deal with it - won't even have enough energy for the needed amount of computers. So they need an ability to send large amounts of data to many research facilities around the world. That's how they created the Grid - next step of internet. It will use *@home-based distributed network to run its calculation. Just much faster. 1 GB per second.
When I've read about it I got wide eyed - this is the kind of future we were promised. With such a download speed you won't need hard drive - everything can be stored elsewhere and accessed realtime. Keep everything on gmail.
You could watch movies without downloading - real iTV. There's so much memory wasted because everyone needs their copy of everything they use. With that speed you'd need just one (+ some backups of course and mirrors for really popular ones). Whole network could be treated as one big computer with users not even aware if something was stored remotely or locally. We really need to switch to Linux.
Of course they can do all that because they create new, dedicated fiber-optic cables and newest, fastest technology everywhere. I could never use its capacity even if connected because some along the way is too old, too slow and with too little channel capacity. Still it's good to know it exist. In time it may even get here. Computer technologies trickle down pretty fast. What was once new and incredible becomes normal, unnoticeable part of everyday world. I've seen a movie from early 80s today. There was paternity problem. I automatically advised them to do paternity test. Then I understood they couldn't. The methods and theory were known but not available for this. Then I understood they also didn't have internet. Probably not even computer. Not that long ago. I was already alive back then. I could barely imagine their lifestyle. So last century.
So if we manage to connect all computers with this will this network become ai? Another LHC singularity, maybe more probable then black holes.
When I've read about it I got wide eyed - this is the kind of future we were promised. With such a download speed you won't need hard drive - everything can be stored elsewhere and accessed realtime. Keep everything on gmail.
You could watch movies without downloading - real iTV. There's so much memory wasted because everyone needs their copy of everything they use. With that speed you'd need just one (+ some backups of course and mirrors for really popular ones). Whole network could be treated as one big computer with users not even aware if something was stored remotely or locally. We really need to switch to Linux.
Of course they can do all that because they create new, dedicated fiber-optic cables and newest, fastest technology everywhere. I could never use its capacity even if connected because some along the way is too old, too slow and with too little channel capacity. Still it's good to know it exist. In time it may even get here. Computer technologies trickle down pretty fast. What was once new and incredible becomes normal, unnoticeable part of everyday world. I've seen a movie from early 80s today. There was paternity problem. I automatically advised them to do paternity test. Then I understood they couldn't. The methods and theory were known but not available for this. Then I understood they also didn't have internet. Probably not even computer. Not that long ago. I was already alive back then. I could barely imagine their lifestyle. So last century.
So if we manage to connect all computers with this will this network become ai? Another LHC singularity, maybe more probable then black holes.
