Cern, the birthplace of the Web, is now working on a project that will make the Web obsolete. This magnificent project is “the grid”, which supposedly is nearly 10K times faster than a typical Broadband connection, thus making the Web obsolete.
The grid project was started seven years ago by researchers at Cern. By using fiber optic cables, a “grid” is produced around the world. First, Cern is connected to eleven other centers, which then will be connected to smaller centers worldwide. Such a grid would be more organized than the Web which looks like this.
Almost like a parallel Web, the grid will provide a connection with the rest of the world as well as what we currently enjoy on the Web. Although it might be slow to become as common place as the Web, virtually anyone can hook up to the grid. It also will be extremely fast because of the high-tech fiber optic cables and routing centers that will ensure the usage of up-to-date material, thus preventing any temporization of data flow.
Ian Bird, the leader of the gridding project believes that the grid would be so fast and safe that users would entrust all of their data to the internet. This ideology of keeping information online so that it can be accessed online, ‘cloud computing’, is not new. In fact, there are many website that allow online storage, with XDrive being one of the most convenient to use.
In fact, according to TimesOnline.co.uk, the grid could also transmit holographic images, play multiplayer games with many other players without lagging, and speed through the web with tremendous speed.
To all who had really slow internet connections or lagging servers, the grid is the savior! So if you wish to connect to the grid, starting counting down because it’s coming out after Summer ends!
New research in computer science has shown that information is always being lost on the web. Some of the loss of information can be attributed to problems with the server or end host. However, these cyber black holes have been found to be a common occurence. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a 17 minute talk from TED (Technology, Education, Design), an annual conference where speakers share their ideas with many important individuals.
This particular talk is by Jeff Bezos and outlines several analogies towards the internet, comparing it to the California Gold Rush and the beginnings of electricity. It is very interesting, but ultimately he comes to a conclusion that we are in the beginnings and things will only increase from here.
You can find hundreds of talks like this on TED.com.
This is a video that I found a while ago that explains the ten dimensional theory. It goes into detail but makes it easy for most people to figure out. The book it is based on is by Rob Bryanton.
After many years of learning from the Jedi, we have learned to make our own holographic film, although it IS a little more crude than those in the Star Wars movies. Right now, our main source of entertainment is that little metal box we call TV. But that all will change soon as a new polymer will develop to help doctors, military personal, and engineers to analyze disorders, plan battles, and plan future constructions respectively. (If you feel offended that doctors cannot plan battles or engineers cannot analyze disorders, please make a mental block on the word “respectively”. Want to move on now?) Best of all, these holograms could soon replace the TV and computer! Score: Mankind-1 Dolphins-0!
As there could be a possibility to hack the universe, why couldn’t there be a way to teleport from point A to point B? In fact, it is very easy to teleport with a new, revolutionary idea. First, we must understand that the shortest distance from point A to point B is a straight line that can be called line AB. Then, there could be a number of different ways to get from one point to another by a route of more than one point. Let’s call any such path A…B. Finally, let’s consider the mechanics of going forward or backwards. When we head toward point A from point B, we are going forward in the right way. However, if we begin to walk away from point B, we would be going forward in the wrong way. Finally, we can see that we are still approaching point B even if we are going the WRONG way. As a result, by going the wrong way toward our target, we must be going faster at our target the RIGHT way than a straight line. Thus, by going the WRONG way, we have discovered how to get to point B in a shorter distance than a straight line. What do we get if the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line? Teleportation!
Previously, the researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have broken records in speed by sending data at a speed of 25.6Tbps. This transfer was only 50 miles long and the company is now looking for a distance record. They recently performed a great feat by sending data over a whopping 1584 mile link at 16.4Tbps. This was accomplished by bundling many 100 Gbps cables together at different wavelengths. The signals were then split at the receiving end (I hope by a hardware decoder, I have a feeling that using a computer to decode the signal might cause it to slow down.) The most recent trial required 164 different channels and updated transmitters and decoders.
Intel’s had its new processor plans slipped out to the public thanks to Sun, according to DailyTech. Details on the 6-core Xeon Dunnington, as well as the kinda-sorta hush-hush Nehalem were apparently leaked out onto Sun’s public web server over the weekend, including plans for the new Xeons to overtake the company’s Tigerton CPU line.
Firstly, a new development in the Middle East internet cable story has come in. Earlier this week, two cables were supposedly cut in the Mediterranean Sea by a boat anchor during a storm. The fact has now been revealed that those two cables were in a restricted area that no boats were allowed into. The cables are only 2 cm thick. It also seems that a third and possibly fourth cable has been cut and Iran had a short outage but is now operating at %40 capacity. Repair of the cables has been delayed so all traffic going through the Middle East and some of India will be significantly slowed.
EDIT: According to this article, a fifth internet cable has been cut.
Windows Vista SP1 has recieved an RTM status, which means that it is slated for a release in mid-March. Although it fixes some driver problems, it reportedly introduces some more, so Microsoft has made it a non-automatic update for those who have known errors. At least Microsoft knows that they have made mistakes. SP1 will increase operating speeds and should fix some other errors, but we’ll have to see once it comes out. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent report from a group of IT managers at over 2200 colleges and universities called EDUCAUSE has outlined an interesting plan. They propose that the government should support a program to roll out a fiber optic infrastructure across the U.S. that would allow for 100 megabits per second at any location.
The plan totals at a cost of $100 billion and would be supported over the next four years by the federal and state governments, each paying $8 billion (that’s a total combined contribution of $64 billion.) For comparison, the federal government could pay for this entire investment if they used the money currently used to support only 116 days of the Iraq war.The rest would be paid by the public or private-sector entity that would maintain and also construct the network. Read the rest of this entry »
Previously, the researchers at Alcatel-Lucent have broken records in speed by sending data at a speed of 25.6Tbps. This transfer was only 50 miles long and the company is now looking for a distance record. They recently performed a great feat by sending data over a whopping 1584 mile link at 16.4Tbps. This was accomplished by bundling many 100 Gbps cables together at different wavelengths. The signals were then split at the receiving end (I hope by a hardware decoder, I have a feeling that using a computer to decode the signal might cause it to slow down.) The most recent trial required 164 different channels and updated transmitters and decoders.
Intel’s had its new processor plans slipped out to the public thanks to Sun, according to DailyTech. Details on the 6-core 
Windows Vista SP1 has recieved an RTM status, which means that it is slated for a release in mid-March. Although it fixes some driver problems, it reportedly introduces some more, so Microsoft has made it a non-automatic update for those who have known errors. At least Microsoft knows that they have made mistakes. SP1 will increase operating speeds and should fix some other errors, but we’ll have to see once it comes out. 
A recent report from a group of IT managers at over 2200 colleges and universities called EDUCAUSE has outlined an interesting plan. They propose that the government should support a program to roll out a fiber optic infrastructure across the U.S. that would allow for 100 megabits per second at any location.