'The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete

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Fox News wrote this <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347212,00.html">article</a> about the future of the internet.



<blockquote>In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.</blockquote>


<blockquote>It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.</blockquote>
 
[quote author="halfnote19" date=1207697534]Fox News wrote this <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347212,00.html">article</a> about the future of the internet.



<blockquote>In theory this would give a standard desktop computer the ability to download a movie in five seconds rather than the current three hours or so.</blockquote>


<blockquote>It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years.</blockquote></blockquote>


Sounds exciting. I hope it is coming soon.
 
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