Broadband To Be Obsolete Within A Decade

Posted Friday 11th April 2008 by Catherine in Uncategorized.

I know people that are still on dial up internet connections. These philistines don’t know what they’re missing out on with the speeds of Broadband. And just when it’s coming to the point of Broadband being the norm, sneaking up behind is a system that could see the internet as we know obsolete within a decade.

The Grid, as it is currently known, is the brainchild of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva. It has come about as a virtual sideline to another major project that the physicists were working on.

The Large Hadron Collider produces massive amounts of data that no average computer system could cope with. In fact, it required the integrating of thousands of computers from around the globe that needed to instantaneously send information to researchers. This is done with the use of super-fast fibre optics and leads to all these linked computers working as one – namely, The Grid.

This is not entirely a new concept and has been used by SETI@home, with the capabilities of running on private PC’s and over telephone cables but with the use of fibre optics as in The Grid, much more complex calculations are possible. This should bring about massive changes to home entertainment as we know it with connections, it is claimed, possibly reaching speeds 1,000 times quicker than today’s Broadband.

Films will be downloadable virtually in an instant, entire music collections within a second and images, sounds and games will be realistic beyond compare.

As always this new technology has implications for use in medicine and has already been used to research anti-malarial drugs. The Grid was used to analyse 140 million different compounds and would have taken 420 years of a conventional computer but the results are already in.

The possibilities for data sharing and research are off the scale as far as The Grid is concerned. Beyond the comprehension of most of us, this will prove to be one of man’s greatest technological feats.

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