The Grid
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  • some sweet info here

  • This is a great video

  • some really good stuff here

  • I have been doing Folding @ Home for years and I install it on every computer that I use and there is no performance decrease from using it. I hardly ever need to use all of my resources on my computer so why not let my unused resources go to a good cause.

  • This sounds really nice, reminds me of torrents and the sharing of torrents. But instead of sharing files, you're sharing computer power. The only problem I see with this though is security. They can try to make it secure, but there's always a way to bypass a security, so I don't know... great concept, but I doubt it'll happen at all.

  • The grid, a digital frontier.

    I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer.

    What did they look like? ships, motorcycles

    Were the circuts like freeways?

    I kept dreaming of a world i thought i'd never see.

    And then, one day....

    I GOT IN!

  • @Cretnor

    lolz, Tron reference.

    btw, did anyone else think this was about Tron?

  • @Cretnor Tron approves!

  • IM ALL FOR THE GRID!!! Could someone please tell me how I can donate my unused computing power to the grid??

    My biggest question is will this extra activity to my PC cause the typical wear and tear caused by my use. I.E. I know my power supply and PCU needs to be relpaced approx ever 5 years as well as everything else as it slowly decays.Once conected to the grid will I be needing to replace hardware more often??

    Please help! I want to help!!

  • @Dexxxter7780 Try searching for BOINC, SETI@Home or distributed computing in general.

  • @Dexxxter7780 Not necessarily. Most computers these days are pretty much durable as long as you take good care of it. The CPU shouldn't get process-related wear and tear from just calculations, unless there are constant, big temperature variations (like if you are turning it on and off every 10 minutes).

    Search for "World Community Grid" or BOINC. It's not the same Grid as CERN, but the same concept. The software you download from WCG's site also allows you to "attach" to other projects.

  • why cant i just save my files on my own hard drive?

  • FUCK YOU CERN!!! NO ONE BESIDES ME WILL USE MY DISC SPACE

  • @smokill91 in your dreams tech noober =))

  • @radicalhacker shut up and get a life

  • @smokill91 Thank You, and i wish you the same...youtube bug!!!

  • @radicalhacker hey! i was just interested bout the future but u started with that lifeless noob talkin shit so youre the one who has to get a life. 1:0 for me ... oh and any further comment from you will confirm your lifelessness hahahaha.

  • "Many hands make light work." I think the key to meeting the demand for processing power will only be solved by quantum computing. Why enlist thousands of computers to take time to compute the solution, when a quantum computer can solve every problem instantaneously?

  • I heard bioinformatics...my major, yay!

  • Why the hell does the vid look like it was made in the early-mid 90s?

  • i hope to hell they don't use windows?

  • "THe Grid"....i like the name at least....sounds pretty cool!

  • tron fights for the users.

  • will it make games stop lagging???

  • @inSANExXSHOTZz i hope so, i wanna have a ping of <50 on a server in china from united states. that would be epic \m/

  • Most people really have no idea what this means. CERN is not changing the internet, they are simply creating a network that will allow people to interface with and use their processing power. I assure you, no personal computer could come anywhere near to the power of the GRID. Besides, it is most likely that the average user will never even have a reason to use the grid so this discussion is irrelevant to you anyways. Small physics usually need big machines and essentially that's just it :D

  • Oh holy Grid! What is the answer to life, universe and everything?!

  • shit

  • THE GRID INTERNET, SENDING CANCEROUS RADIATION LIKE NONE HAS EVER BEFORE...

  • This gave me a boner

  • Sounds like it would be more invasive of your privacy "security validation"

  • @Radioactivefantasy Errrm that could just mean putting in a password you know? lol

  • WOW. i wanna keep my regular internet. -.-

  • Mainframe link capacity/Mini link capacity/=Fixed Word capacity =GRID.

  • google, anyone?

  • but wouldnt it be better if they kept there grid off ours cause or virises and stuff just to be careful also the goverment couldnt influence it science should have its own rules and the plp shouldnt be influenced by goverment thats the biggest problem they have always had

  • @lastpoet1 Wow, punctuation dude!

  • @ShawtyRyan hahaha as if ur that dumb u need dots and check marks to no how to read letters and no when to stop and take a breath lol and to comment on something 2 months or more i said is laughable ur just watching that now?u need to catch up guy things r happening alot faster then that

  • @lastpoet1 but you can't get a serious point across with no punctuation and I can type fast enough to include punctuation in my writing.

  • @ShawtyRyan hahaha let it go guy no body who is real cares only agents who troll 4 the goverment do and real plp take statments as they r not on how it looks were not in school ur not a teacher were not gettin marks 4 this these r idea's and info plp need and want so u got to get ur head out of the clouds and relise ur not in school u dont need to be phoney with any1 if there real they will understand u and get u if they dont they must be to arrogent or there a troll 4 the goverment

  • @lastpoet1 You talk sh*t!

  • @ShawtyRyan ok now i no who u r

  • @lastpoet1 i should have known i was talkin to a lil kid thats why u just got on here now and have to feel anger with what i wrote sorry i didnt relise u were still in school but guy there has been a lot of things that has came out in the past month that hasnt hit mainstream be4 just cheak it out 4 ur self things r changing fast u better get searchin be4 its gone

  • Is The Grid going to have a positronic brain?

  • the story of Metal Gear Solid comes to mind...also CERN calls it The Grid? are you kidding? im def. gettin OFF the damn grid...

  • THE GRID The new world orders future internet that will make all home desktops hard drives accesabull to a central controling systen creating one super computor out of all our private personal infomation

  • @mistressmadambella are you stupid. the grid is exactly like the internet except its just faster

  • @AjblueDesign Well at least the stupid will survive then hmmmmm topsy turvy ha!

  • Another NWO project I'm sure...

  • would we share porn faster by that?

  • Look up Cloud Computing, This is similar to this idea.

  • To be honest I can't understand why so many people are turning their noses up at this. Remember that the internet belonged to the scientists in the first place, we invaded their internet. When the grid goes mainstream we will again invade their grid. Why shouldn't we donate a bit of CPU time to the scientists?! It's a small price to pay to have instant on demand data and processing power!

  • @leerees Umm, the internet was created by US. 60% of all internet content is privately generated--not by corporations. We aren't invading anything; we're just using the internet as it was made to be used.

  • @NotYourShepherd

    Actually it was created by CERN (yes you guessed it, the guys that made the large Hardon collider (LHC)), they connected all the "networks" at the time into TCP/IP Internet protocol, and now their now working on this "Grid"

  • @Paul1984Aus

    oh yay for spelling mistakes rofl, "large HARDON collider" :/

  • @Paul1984Aus That is my new penis's nickname.

    Thank you.

  • @leerees

    could not agree more

  • @leerees im curious what has happened to the grid, i thought that we would be hearing about this more. its been 2 years

  • @AjblueDesign It is said they will be realesing the grid in 5 years

  • @leerees

    Also, though, the many normal non-scientific people have helped increase the speed at which technology advances. For example:

    Computer games are the most taxing programs ran on a system and have required hardware to be upgraded.

    The Wii and the Kinect have made HUGE advancements on future technology (Kinect esp).

    Pornography required more high speed internet access and also required ISPs to be able to support more memory allocation. It also was a major contributor to online sales.

  • The interned was discovered by scientists but they didn't own it, same thing with the atomic bomb.

    And what do you mean ïnvadin again" there grid? The grid on witch CERN is working is a grid that that is formed only between Univesitys, reseach labs, and things liek this, becouse if they discover something that m yscare the people, i mshore they would't let it skeep world wide.

    And this grid thing, is nothing new. There already is a mainstread grid online since the beginning.

  • @radicalhacker P.S. The Grid is a Network that beside offering you acces to ww data, it alowes you to use the servers hardware components too. Thats what is this project all about.

    By the way. I'm looking for volunteers to help me develop my own grid...

    If there is someon interesed you can contact me here, or by e-mail: radicalhacker@ymail.com

  • @radicalhacker the internet,discovered??? LoL where was it hiding before being dicovered?

  • @TheBigBADaZz i think you should go more often to school and learn some english ar at least some expresion couse your SOOOO out dated....it's the same thing like when you say "man discovered the weel", was the weel hiding in your ass?

  • @radicalhacker You're not only an idiot but an aggressive one too(but hey you are from Romania so you are excused).No its not the same moron but it seems in your brain invention,creation=discovery.G­et your head out of your ass and learn to use,differentiate the proper word when needed.Also after seeing most of the comments on your channel have the word "troll",I rest my case on you.

  • @TheBigBADaZz please wipe your eyes, there is only one idiot who called my troll, and since you have no ideea why he called my that, mind your bussiness ;) uber-dork

  • @leerees Agreed. If anything, with the power that our collective processing time, imagine what we could process!!!! It's intese to think about..........

  • @leerees Agreed. If anything, with the power that our collective processing time, imagine what we could process!!!! It's intese to think about..........although i am interested to see what develops from the virtual pool of information that we are creating..Inrespone to captain terminator upthere... just as in our species there are good people and bad people...in most cases people are good...with computers...they are only as good as their programming...

  • @leerees

    Whats even more ironic is that these people who complain about distributed computation keep saying that we are giving up our liberty as we will not own the grid when in fact Most of the software that people run on there current pc's is licensed.

  • I hace recently heard about World community grid and joined to help science i a small way, my laptop and amd 3800+, 3072 DDR memory detskop computer are crunching numbers when i dont play games !

  • @crodiler1

    good man, can you tell me where I can find the login for that?

  • normal people with internet can do this now.

    like when your computer is in screen saver the computer will be sent info to proses and then it will send the data back, i know of 2 things they use this for 1 is to help find a cure for melanoma and 2 is to search the sky's for alien life or something. its a good use of unused performance when nothings happening on your pc but you should be careful and only trust sites you know because someone might be stealing your stuff or destroying your computer

  • if what their debating is true about the internet growing almost identical to the way a human brain grows, then things are going to get really interesting, exponential technology and a global voracity for information may have created something a little bit more 'out there' than this poxy grid.

  • Can it also share graphic card power so I can play Crisis Warhead at Ultra Quality without lag online? If it can then it definitely has my vote!! Bring it on!

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  • * The internet rules as long as there's hackers, pirates and " conspiracy theorists "...

    Oh yeahhhh...Just gotta love those 2012 / Nibiru CT'er fucktards. LMAO...

  • Oh and like they said in the video, its all arround the world/web. So you can get acces at even more ways then one. Like i said, one hacker is needed, but i ensure you that there will be more then just 1.

  • I wonder how much radioation that thing carries

  • it is a very waste technology come to me i will provide better than this

  • 1 hacker... ONE hacker is what it takes to get the date and delete it, Because how will they ensure this is safe? use Norton? Free AVG maybe? hehe.

  • I'm sure the people who created this great thing will be out witted by an amateur hacker?

    /sarcasm

  • Yes the same people at all the software manufactures thought of that, and just look whats all cracked. Even windows, even police databases. Hospital info. and even more, This is hacked in 2,0 sec if they did a decent job.

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  • -_-

  • david icke says, that the internet is a 18th dimensional dimension that crosses the paradox of non fiction and george orwells great 1984,

    however, i think that 9-11 probably was an inside job...

    wake up neo

  • david ickes a retard

  • yo. get over it u fucking conspiracy artist bitch. its done. all that inside job shit is done. let it go faggot

  • dude its a bit hard to get over all this shit coz its a bigger thing, MUCH bigger!

  • yeah for sure, why are they not water boarding Larry Silverstein for Information about who put the bombs in the 3 steal framed buildings that imploded on themselves.

    Maybe we should ask Marvin P. Bush, the presidents younger brother, who worked for a company called Securacom that provided security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines, and Dulles International Airport...

    The list of people in power who are criminals goes on and will go on till we stop it.

  • This seems like for the time being it has no use for the general masses. If it does become something we use daily like the internet my concern becomes the privacy risk. although the internet has people and groups patrolling for various bits of info on you, the security risk for somebody who knows how to keep protected is low.

    With this we are now talking about an entire new infrastructure that the government can easily manipulate before we as a general population even have access.

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  • Does anyone know what company is in charge of the grid?

  • stocks? :)

  • exactly

  • This is for the people who gave me a thumb down : go plug your computer in the back of your necks and sleep.

  • First of all...the grid...is already here....

    The grid is being more and more censored and controlled, so everybody has access to the same bullshit.

    The bullshit, working as a glue, will Unite the globe.

    And when i hear Obama speak without his teleprompter in his ear or head...or when the signal fails for a short period of time, I can only make the conclusion that he is an idiot. Maybe he studies on his speeches like a parrot for 3 months at Richard Bruce Cheney-room 1 0we 3.

  • yes, anyone who takes the time to actually think about what they are saying before they say it is obviously an idiot.

  • oh !! he thinks before he speaks.

    Then he is a bigger idiot, because I hear bullshit coming out his mouth.

    Hear him when he is filmed with his dog and family.

    hahahaa fucking hilarious BS.

  • ok.... didn't even understand a word of what you just wrote.

  • ok.....I talked about the internet grid, and all the information we get from it.

    The internet is a very powerfull net or grid with a lot of information on it. ........till the people who control the internet start to say it should have never been invented and start censoring and filtering the information just like what has been done to TV.

    Result it just globalized propaganda, and I think the fun and amazement of the internet is in its diversity.

    Can you follow me on this?

  • ok? why didnt they just say cloud computing in the first place

  • ...so basically, it's a mixture between limewire and google?

  • They said that this won't be available for domestic internet users(us) and only students and secientists can use this thing. That's what I heard from some random article about this.

  • Yeah, But thats just the first year it excists, After that it will be for everyone, Just mention that internet was for the US Army, Now everyone can use it, Even terrorists,

  • The Grid will kill all and any freedoms you enjoy online at this time, unless you are online just cause you like propaganda and disinformation.

  • My question : the thing we call The Internet will be shed like so much snakeskin and our PCs and Macs will simply be nodes on the big OS in the sky?

  • @ :40

    "among people" not "between people"

  • could this be used for online gaming and shit like that

  • emphatically yes -- and to a much greater extent than its architects realize, no doubt about it

  • For security you have to save your data on a PC its not connected to the internet. So no worries^^

  • "So how many bit encryption will we need now to protect our networks and Files? This GRID will laugh at 2048bit encryption. Brute Force a password 100 Characters long in secs not years"

    The grid will take care of security aspects by itself. Also it will not allow such actions due to it's virtual organisation's policies and it's explicit certification oriented architecture. So the persons who will do such things would be identified in no time.

  • I have got fibre optics Internet and a connection speed of 100 Mbit down and 10 Mbit up by now. I can have 1 Gigabit in both directions, or even much more if I would pay for it. Fibre Optics connections will be essential when grid-technology will become common in our daily life.

    "Fibre optics fail as the lines get longer."

  • there is already something similar in practice, it's called Folding Project, google it...

  • So how many bit encryption will we need now to protect our networks and Files? This GRID will laugh at 2048bit encryption. Brute Force a password 100 Characters long in secs not years. But wait you could download a large 1GB File from any where in seconds that sounds nice JOKE!!!.

  • Microsoft released the Azure OS a Cloud of Servers which will be able run Web Apps from there data centers as if they where on our own computers this is the wave of the future. Most people will just use Dumb Terminals (Thin Clients) for there personal computers in the future lol NOT ME!!!

  • the grid is gonna be like Skynet in the terminator.

  • @durango112 lol XD

  • What I liked about Web 1 is that it wasn't marketed in the manner seen here. Matter of fact, it wasn't marketed at all.

  • "if it aint broke, don't fix it!" This is a scam for internet 2. Net Neutrality is at risk.

  • That was a linux users typical speaking ;_;

  • elaborate.

  • theyre not fixing it, simply upgrading it. example - changing copper wires to fiber optic wires which transmit at the speed of light

  • re-read my post again. Internet is not broke. No need upgrading it. T1-t3 lines are more than enough to stream life much less high definition videos. Don't talk unless you know what you're talking about. Fibre optics fail as the lines get longer. Read up on it fool.

  • Mistake they claimed they created the Wide Wide Web my mistake.

  • Oh yeah..And CERN created the internet in the early 90's LIES..LIES..LIES. Who do these people think they are?

  • They did.. o_o

  • We can not let this happen. This is the death of the internet as we know it. This is all apart of the big plan the NWO. This will not solve our problem it will control us. The internet is a community built by a community we all own it do not think these people have good intentions.

    If they need to do research though computer power one big super computer design it on a different infrastructure. I will not have my computer monitored by these people.

  • There will always be an internet.

  • "It has already been used to help design new drugs against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills 1m people worldwide each year. Researchers used the grid to analyse 140m compounds - a task that would have taken a standard internet-linked PC 420 years."

  • I don't understand all the negativity here. This will be a great tool for science. There are a wealth of problems that simply cannot be solved using conventional supercomputers. This will allow multiple users to run, simultaneously, processing intense calculations. If anyone is concerned about security, give it 15 years and quantum cryptography will be in use. An unbreakable security system via the laws of physics themselves.

  • O shit skynet

  • Wait, does this mean that we have to hook up our computers to a fiber - optic cable now?

  • This is an overall burden to the individual user. If researchers aim to have access to greater processing power and as a result want to connect to the individual user, the individual will just serve as a processing peon for the researcher. The success of this system from the viewpoint of the user is dependent on the number of people who are not utilizing their processors to their capabilities. They will eventually force people to connect to the grid for any use of telecommunications.

  • all of our comp will be dead if one virus gets in >_> wish that they can fix that .

  • Yeah... More Porn for everyone!!!

  • this is just another thing in tech , that lets big brother keep more tabs on us cytizins, and will be slower then whgat we have now.

  • What is the difference between this and all the @home projects going on right now? Is the user allowed to use "the grid" for his own purposes? Could I for example use it to encode a video or something like that. If not, it won't be anything new since SETI for example was around already in 1996...

  • the @home projects were prototypes for the grid. It was a simple way to test it out on a small scale.

  • omg, ive read shit loads on this, like the fact that it will be 10,000 times faster than the average broadband, and can download movies within seconds (takes hours now). BUT HOW WILL IT WORK! tell ya, this is steven hawking stuff this is, i dont get the fact that it will use different computers powers, or something like that

  • What I'm confused about is a CPU's personal power vs. Grid. It says the computers will have infinite power but will be the same if per-say I have a 1996 computer, would pages load just as fast? I don't use a 1996 computer, just asking lol.

  • 1 huge virus = all computers dead.XD

  • totaly awesome, can't wait to the day I can connect to it :)

    but it can't replace the internet as it has a core, the internet has none.

  • Uh, SETI began distributed computing in 1994 to use home computer to process huge data (CERN much later renamed same idea "the grid"). Also, CERN didn't invent the internet in 1990. Kleinrock invented packet switching in 1961, while Kahn/Serf invented TCP in 1972. CERN came later in 1989 with hypertext.

  • just chip us all and tarmac the whole fukkin planet and have done with it, you freaks!

  • Yeah all sounds good until a hacker gets into the grid and fucks us all over

  • let's save the grid for the waggle iron. I do not want to fall in and out of a computer. I just get on here to see if there are still any intelligent folks out there still. There are some, but there is alway an A in every croud as well haha

  • Hmmm....quite cyberpunk indeed.

  • after grid comes out there will be no lag in video games and websites will load the second u press enter

  • It's a tool and it could be the best one humans have ever made. Instead of bringing doom and gloom it might just do us a hell of a lot of good.

  • I will never submit to this "Grid"

  • Idiots.

    How will that sandwich taste with a bar code in your arm..

    No, but really..

  • So i can order a Big Mac from Asia and get delivered to the U.S in under 20min or else its free ?

  • Ever heard of the botnet? I'm starting to like this grid, could be very useful....

  • The grid runs at 10-300 Gbps. :O Imagine gaming on that :P

  • Too bad we can't lower pings any further :/

  • I bet soon that's possible to :D, maybe bending space and sending info faster and quicker than anyone can even dream of. Then ping do not exist any more. xD

  • This is a great idea if it does NOT replace the current internet. This should just be a secondary tool. The individual computer should exist, and so should this grid computer system COMPLETELY seperate. However if the individual computer is replaced by this, expect despotism.

  • Man, I could see a virus running rampant through this system!

  • I think that is quite unlikely. If it is like cern it will all be based on custom linux. Also, the people doing the work are very smart. I think most viruses need intimate knowledge of OS/programs...thats easy for common programs and ooperating systems. But i guess it's not impossible.

  • How old is this video?

  • yeah, but it did boost their economy and the average european is now much richer than an aussie.

    Also Britain is in europe and although we are part of the EU, we haven't given up out sovereignty or currency.

  • And what's wrong with that?

  • biggest bunch of toss i've ever seen - lol

  • I get the general SkyNet vibe from this :P

  • Thanks for posting

  • Nobody who knows the definition of infinite ever uses the term "virtually infinite".

    Available computing power will be increased, not "virtually infinite". Let's not be stupid about that.

  • Dead right nanostuff.

  • Such an excellent institutional video. I wish there were more videos like these explaining the importance of scientific endeavours. Congrats!

  • Very bad idea to give a computer infinite power, don't you think?

  • yes rlong04 computers are going to acquire total and infinite power and wipe humanity off the face of the Earth.

    I'm excited about this though, this means huge leaps for science and an incredibly fast Internet speed for everyone else. ( look up more stuff about this, it's gonna be freakin huge)

  • Great, so it will wipe all us humans out but the Internet will be super fast? Yes, I am also looking forward to that very much :) NOT

  • Hudge privacy concern!

  • So everyone knows what you are working on (or could), I mean, come on, someone always has final control. Even if it is only the 'broker' that 'knows' what you want, the broker serves some human(s)

  • ZOMG SETI@HOME!!!

  • nice!