"Data will be gathered from the European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN), which hosts the collider in France and Switzerland, and distributed
to thousands of scientists throughout the world. One writer described the
grid as a 'parallel Internet.' Ruth Pordes, executive director of the Open
Science Grid, which oversees the U.S. infrastructure for the LHC network,
describes it as an 'evolution of the Internet.' New fiber-optic cables with
special protocols will be used to move data from CERN to 11 Tier-1 sites
around the globe, which in turn use standard Internet technologies to
transfer the data to more than 150 Tier-2 centers. *Worldwide, the LHC
computing grid will be comprised of about 20,000 servers, primarily running
the Linux operating system.* Scientists at Tier-2 sites can access these
servers remotely when running complex experiments based on LHC data, Pordes
says. If scientists need a million CPU hours to run an experiment overnight,
the distributed nature of the grid allows them to access that computing
power from any part of the worldwide network"
Somente precisamos saber qual a distro. Ja pensou se for fedora :)
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Cristiano Furtado
Gerente de TI - Projetos de Software Livre
Embaixador do Fedora no Brasil
Sites:
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http://www.jasonnfedora.eti.br
http://www.fedora.org.br
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