Monday, April 14th 2008
CERN Developing New Internet
CERN, home of the world's most advanced particle accelerator and birthplace of modern day TCP/IP internet connections, has begun work on a replacement for the current internet. The new system can run at speeds 10,000 times faster than today's typical connections, and has been developed to meet the demands of CERN's new Large Hadron Collider. The grid, which utilizes fiber optics, already boasts 55,000 servers (a number which is expected to reach 200,000 within a couple of years) and connects CERN to 11 research locations in the USA, Canada, Europe and the Far East. Each of these locations is then linked to academic locations, and it is expected that by autumn a student at any university in the UK could connect to the new high-speed grid rather than the current internet. The development could make desktop storage a thing of the past, although it would probably be a nightmare for music labels.
Source:
DailyTech
27 Comments on CERN Developing New Internet
5Minutes I would say 1second :D:D:D
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Definately agree Security from hell to keep up.
is this the same system as the idea of processing power too.
I read an article in Maximum PC awhile back that said computers of the future will just be a giant NIC. And servers will hold all the processing power, we will basically just buy the power that we want from the server and use it accordingly.
I dont really like this idea. To me it just gives the government and hackers the ability to look into anything they would like. Seems like privacy is out the window at this point
Maybe I'm just paranoid but I don't trust all the users I let on some of my PCs, I have no problem with reflashing other PCs in my house.
Give super string theory some more time before discounting it completely. So far it is the only mathematical solution to the existence of everything known in the universe........