Times Online is reporting that a world-wide lightening-fast fiber optic internet system called "The Grid" will come online this summer. Developed to handled the information processing for the large particle accelerator at CERN, it will transmit information ten thousand times faster than existing broadband networks. Here's a quote:
The grid has been built with dedicated fibre optic cables and modern routing centres, meaning there are no outdated components to slow the deluge of data. The 55,000 servers already installed are expected to rise to 200,000 within the next two years.
Professor Tony Doyle, technical director of the grid project, said: “We need so much processing power, there would even be an issue about getting enough electricity to run the computers if they were all at Cern. The only answer was a new network powerful enough to send the data instantly to research centres in other countries.”
That network, in effect a parallel internet, is now built, using fibre optic cables that run from Cern to 11 centres in the United States, Canada, the Far East, Europe and around the world.
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