How the Large Hadron Collider Might Change the Web: Scientific American - The Diigo Meta page

• 05 Sep 08
  

  Ironically, CERN's next great contribution to the Internet could be all but transparent to the end user. In a perfect world, Globus or its successors would simply make everything on a given grid straightforwardly and transparently accessible from any comp

  data information computer particle_accelerator LHC

  • it's cheaper to write the data to terabyte hard drives and ship them from one supercomputer center to another via FedEx than it is to transfer the gigantic data sets over the net.

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