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European nuclear research center CERN launched the world's largest parallel and distributed computing network (the "grid"). Over 100 thousand. computer network linking the different countries resources will be used data obtained during experiments with the greatest hadron accelerator, processing, writes Reuters.

European nuclear research center CERN launched the world's largest parallel and distributed computing network (the "grid"). Over 100 thousand. computer network linking the different countries resources will be used data obtained during experiments with the greatest hadron accelerator, processing, writes Reuters.

By the way, the Hadron Collider is currently under repair and should be re-launched early next year. The following year, you run the hadron accelerator, using this computer network, scientists will be able to real-time monitoring and analysis of experimental data.

Although currently the main experiment is suspended, CERN network computing resources are used for other purposes, such as the attempt to find drugs against bird flu, earthquakes and analyzed in advance determined by the number of losses incurred the area.

Network capacity equivalent to 140 data centers, data flows among the networked computers can reach even up to 15 Gb per second. Scientists estimates that every year, this network will process 15 petabait? or 15 million gigabytes of data, which could accommodate the 20 million. CD-ROMs.

A similar, but much less parallel and distributed computing network operating in Lithuania. "LitGrid" as the network has about 500 different national academic institutions of computers used for scientific calculations, such as physical or ecological processes analysis, biology, and bioinformatics modeling.