Grid, the Superfast Internet is on its Way
Internet speed is always a topic to be discussed amongst web surfers. The Grid would definitely boost this discussion making people wondering about its speed.
The European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) is working on a new superfast Internet infrastructure called Grid. The new technology is expected to be 10,000 times faster than the regular broadband speed.
That means you can download heavy multimedia data such as movies, songs etc within seconds.
“We are extremely excited about our experiment. It is the biggest experiment in the world and we hope we are going to understand all sorts of things like the origin of mass and what is the dark matter in the universe,” said theoretical physicist Professor Malcolm Fairbairn at CERN.
The project will recreate what happens in nature all the time by sending protons crashing into each other. The main difference is that this time there are powerful detectors set up to monitor what exactly happens.
The whole idea of a superfast internet may soon come true, so that downloading and communication is made easier.
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April 7th, 2008 at 8:25 am
What has a particle accelerator to do with internet speed. I think you are terribly confused with what CERN is doing with the particle acceleration and the internet thing, unless I miss something. The one they are doing is aimed at finding what is called a “god particle” a form of matter which occurs for a very very very brief time when two particles collide at the speed of light.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:18 am
Its really a stunning innovation!! With that much speed combined with other powerful & innovative software we just can’t imagine what we will be able to do in future.
suryakant ( Vishvas ) Avachat, Patas.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:42 am
This is great and exciting news! Just imagine 10,000 times faster than Broadband! Truly mind-blowing. Superfast “GRID” will be great boon to surfers around the world and will change the fact of networking. Looking forward to the day when we shall be able to connect to “GRID”.
Keep us informed.
==Harish Ganatra
April 7th, 2008 at 9:43 am
i am excited about grid……
April 7th, 2008 at 11:40 am
Aswin, The connection is that CERN developed the grid to capture the data generated by the LHC since current computing speeds were not fast enough to do it. The grid is a spin-off, not unlike that “Al Gore invention” called the internet.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:56 am
Actually Alex,
The internet is itself an invention of the CERN itself.Not Al gore. CERN have even got an award for that.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:59 am
yes, it is the best invention in the past 10 years as far as surfing is concerned.
But can any one give me som detailed idea about the principle of LHC
(Large Hadron collider)
April 9th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Rohan,
I realize the internet was developed by CERN, thus the quotations around “Al Gore invention”. If I could visually represent rolling my eyes while saying “Al Gore invention”, maybe it would have been clearer…internet and grid are both spinoffs from CERN.
April 9th, 2008 at 10:23 am
The inventions and discovries of particle physics will definitely add some clues in a very roundabout manner but never ,mankind can overtake nature even at infinite time to come .Such is the power of nature like mother.
April 10th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Grid is a very good result in CERN. But when will come that technology in India??????? What is the cost of that technology?
April 10th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
stupid article!
1. The LHC experiment itself has nothing to do with the Internet!
2. The “Grid” is not the next Internet!! It is an infrastructure that enables faster transfer (and computing!) of heavier loads and hence is used by the LHC experiment, which would produce petabytes of data, to tranfer their data for collaborative analysis by universities and labs across the world. The constituents of the Grid infrastructure and lessons learnt from it might be incorporated into future work and infrastructure which could be part of the public-domain networks (a.k.a. the Internet :p )
April 17th, 2008 at 5:32 am
My friends informed me about “GRID”. What a way to be connected in future! Sounds great! Hope this will be sooner.
Please keep me informed.