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Monday, February 25, 2002
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/02/02/25/020225opstorage.xml The power of the grid Mark Jones and Mario Apicella MORE POWER. It's a concept that appeals to just about every technology enthusiast. Thanks to continuous advances, we hold fast to the promise of faster processing, more storage, and unlimited information access from any device. And so we turn to grid computing. Similar in concept to power plant grids that channel electricity where it's needed, grid computing aims to deliver data processing resources including CPUs, storage, and applications across nations and continents. We're talking about serious computing here. The scientific community and organizations such as CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which gave birth to the Internet) are working on ways of processing literally petabytes of data....
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