Posted on 01/30/2004 1:07:01 AM PST by RussianConservative
MOSCOW - Russia, US and China will create a global circled computer network around the Earth, as was reported by Russian Academy of Sciences member Eugeniy Velikhov at the Academy Presidium. The project named GLORIAD is designed for development of sciences and education.
“World science will evolve in a different way in the nearest future”, the scientist said. He noted that volumes of scientific information have a tendency to increase globally, and increasingly more powerful computers and high-speed networks are needed for its processing. “Russian science fate depends on its access to high-speed Internet. Speed no less than 10Mb per second is essential today”, he said.
According to Velikhov, speed of information transfer in the networks increases thousand times in ten years, judging by experience. Data volumes to be processed in high energy physics, astronomy and other fields can be counted in trillions bits. Not only supercomputers are necessary for this, but networks with coordinate speed of transfer of this information, Velikhov stressed.
Russia takes part in GLORIAD project through its Ministry of Industry, Sciences and Technology, Ministry of Communications, Rostelecom company and Russian Academy of Sciences, Izvestia reports. Academy president Yuri Osipov stressed that participation in this global project is very important for Russian science and education, as access to modern information technologies will widen the possibilities of international cooperation.
Personally, I think that we should pull out of it and put our money inour own projects, but we won't do that ,I suppose.
This architecture is all the rage in high-end, bleeding edge computing in the research world (there are some people working at business oriented instances of it.) There are several research instances of it: the LHC newtork being built for CERN, several in this country and a few others in the EU. The idea is high performance computing on demand across fast networks. It may be the only real thing that comes out of ITER. When you hear the term "e-science" this is generally what they are talking about. It is all the rage in the EU.
We are the leaders in this sort of architecture right now but just barely. We need to watch this.
By the way, some of the designs are moving away from TCP/IP, the protocol used by the Internet. The internet as we know it may just be a passing thing, at least from a techinical point of view.
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