an example of what happens when non-tech people write tech articles. reading between the lines, the reason its blazingly fast is because data is all stored in each local centre but distributed over t'internet to the others. fibre is fast but unless they've layed their own between each office then they will be on the same backbone net as the rest of us and subject to the same quality of service. The WWW is just an application layer on top of the network and the internet is a framework of interconnected networks so this would
become the internet, not replace it.
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Originally Posted by Legion
I very much believe we will be using the grid ourselves within some 15 years. Why? because everything sooner or later reaches the "market" so to speak, and it was the same with the internet before, we wouldnt get it but look.. were using it now.
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very much so, but which "grid"? i've heard the term applied to several projects. the idea behind the Cell processor in the PS3 is to form a internetworking grid for utility computing (ie a huge distributed mainframe) which is a service already available from IBM (Cell partner/manufacturer, not that it necessarily uses Cell or PS3, but
could potentially). it makes alot of sence for organisations with huge server farms to sell spare capacity and virtualisation facilitates this very easily, ie have a VM running "thegrid" that can use 50% of unused server capacity. I think a grid like topology is what makes Google work too. so we are already using it.