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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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How CERN’s Grid may place the power of the...mputers in your hands
----------------------------------------It's a story about how CERN is using mobile devices and how they have 200k computers on their network analyzing data but the article also mentions WCG. Another computing Grid being developed by IBM and University of California, Berkley, is also already attempting to tap into the computing power of mobile devices The World Community Grid now allows Google’s Android devices to work on the Grid. Last month researchers began using the combined power of volunteer’s handsets to search for new drug candidates against HIV. Around 20,000 smartphones are now on the network, along with 500,000 personal computers. David Anderson, a researcher at the University of Berkeley’s space sciences laboratory, said: “There are about a billion Android devices right now, and their total computing power exceeds that of the largest conventional supercomputers. “Mobile devices are the wave of the future in many ways, including the raw computing power they can provide to solve computationally difficult problems.”   [Edit 1 times, last edit by twilyth at Aug 21, 2013 4:21:01 AM] |
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Successor to the Web? lolwut?:)
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well I think the idea is that the WWW completely overshadowed the internet to the point that people now think the 2 are synonymous and the WWW originated at CERN. Granted, they're pushing it with the idea of grid computing given all of the other issues involved but what do you expect from journalists.
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alver
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Yeah, it's funny (or scary) how many people don't know the difference between the Internet and the WWW, and it looks like in this case the same thing has happened again with the Grid.
----------------------------------------Worryingly, some of the people who know least about it all are the politicians we elect to make laws about this stuff for us...  (previously known as 'proxima' on SETI, UD, distributed folding, FaD, and Rosetta) |
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Well I think the idea is that the WWW completely overshadowed the internet to the point that people now think the 2 are synonymous and the WWW originated at CERN. Granted, they're pushing it with the idea of grid computing given all of the other issues involved but what do you expect from journalists. And we all know that "Web 2.0" was the successor to the WWW.. derp </sarcasm> |
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Article yesterday in Computerworld about the Clean Energy Project
----------------------------------------Computerworld - Harvard University professor Alan Aspuru-Guzik and his team are supporting the search for organic compounds that could be used in the next generation of solar power cells. More at linkTo date, Harvard's Clean Energy Project has studied 2.3 million compounds and accumulated 500 terabytes of molecular data. A massive undertaking, for sure, but Aspuru-Guzik's team has it covered. They tapped into the IBM World Community Grid -- a distributed platform that uses the spare processing power of about 6,000 computers made available by volunteers around the world -- to perform quantum chemical calculations on millions of organic materials. This approach allowed the researchers to perform in three years, from 2010 to 2013, calculations that would have taken 17,000 years on a single computer. |
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They tapped into the IBM World Community Grid -- a distributed platform that uses the spare processing power of about 6,000 computers made available by volunteers around the world Only 6000, where did all the rest go? |
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branjo
Master Cruncher Slovakia Joined: Jun 29, 2012 Post Count: 1892 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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They tapped into the IBM World Community Grid -- a distributed platform that uses the spare processing power of about 6,000 computers made available by volunteers around the world Only 6000, where did all the rest go?They probably lost some zeros on the way - you know the way of thinking of majority of population: 0 is nothing, so we don't need it  Cheers   Crunching@Home since January 13 2000. Shrubbing@Home since January 5 2006  |
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JmBoullier
Former Community Advisor Normandy - France Joined: Jan 26, 2007 Post Count: 3715 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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6000?
----------------------------------------Probably the real number of members/devices actually crunching for CEP2. For once real numbers are used instead of the usual "total device installations ever" you won't complain?  |
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Crystal Pellet
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6000? Very well spotted, JeanProbably the real number of members/devices actually crunching for CEP2. CEP2 Results Returned yesterday 26,181 Maximum runtime 12 hours = 2 x 6000 = 12,000 a day The extra tasks probably coming from faster systems and machines running 2 or more concurrently |
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