Thursday, September 11, 2008

Cern builds largest computer grid to study origins of the universe | 8 Feb 2008 | ComputerWeekly.com

Cern builds largest computer grid to study origins of the universe | 8 Feb 2008 | ComputerWeekly.com: "The grid, which will go live in June, will pool the processing power of approximately 100,000 CPUs worldwide. It will process information at a rate of 1gbps, said Francois Grey, head of Cern's IT communications team.

'About 20% [of CPUs] will be here at Cern, another 30% will be in 11 major datacentres, and the rest of the computing power will come from 250 other centres worldwide,' said Grey."