Computing: One grid to rule them all.
At a meeting on computing in high-energy physics held in late September 2004 in Interlaken, Switzerland, physicists and engineers reviewed progress towards an ambitious type of computing grid, which aims to create a truly seamless system. Skeptics of such a project should beware, as 12 years previo...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 373; pp. 74 - 76 |
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| Format: | Article |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
10/9/2004
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| Summary: | At a meeting on computing in high-energy physics held in late September 2004 in Interlaken, Switzerland, physicists and engineers reviewed progress towards an ambitious type of computing grid, which aims to create a truly seamless system. Skeptics of such a project should beware, as 12 years previously, at a previous Interlaken conference, a young engineer gave out T-shirts advertising a new and rather obscure scientific-networking tool of dubious economic value: the world wide web. |
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