'The Grid' Could Soon Make the Internet Obsolete

[halfnote19_IHB]

Fox News wrote this article about the future of the internet.

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.

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.

 

[biscuitninja_IHB]

Sorry ,its not the Grid, its "The Matrix"... pssh....

-bix

p.s. yea i read about this a short while back. It is pretty cool.

 

[IrvineRenter_IHB]

Fox News wrote this article about the future of the internet.

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.

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.

Sounds exciting. I hope it is coming soon.