What is the future of grid computing?
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I have heard it's fantastic, what's better than splitting up all of the math among multiple computers?
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Not the current kind of computers. Keep mixing animal neurons and metallic parts and we might see something really scary.
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The world will likely want more than it can get by 2020.\n\nGood! Maybe someone will finally get serious about a workable alternative!
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I quite disagree with Darrius. The law of accelerating returns and Moore's law make it inevitable that by no later than 2040 we will have advanced so far technologically that we will be able to do all that they do in the Matrix movies and more. We won't need  a huge spike driven into a hole in the back of our heads though. (Ever hear of wireless networks?)\n\nWithin a decade or two we will be able to supplement our brains with implants allowing us to parallel process (multi-task), enjoy instant and total memory recall, and communicate via the then ubiquitous, wireless Internet with other people or computers including being able to download information. \n\nThis is just scratching the surface. Check out my source links and hang on, we're all about to go on one heck of a ride.
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As a category, I think that web services will be widely used in the near future.\n\nAs a specific language (or group of languages, really), I think that AJAX will be much more prominent in the near future.
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I don't think Hardware has a good future in the market\n\nWeb technologies are emerging and the I.T. Industry has once again BOOMED because of Web Technologies so I prefer you must take courses of Microsoft .NET technology, XML and databases
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these r the days of future pasat
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Try Other World Computing.
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Research suggests that within the next century not only will we completely understand the human brain but computer processing power will far exceed it. Therefore we should not only be able to replicate the brain but should be able to create a far superior machine or human version 2. Depending on how we as humans merge with this new technology will determine whether we are part of this superior race or seen in the future as a lesser being. Either way endless and exciting possibilities are around the corner I don't think we will be waiting 1000's or even 100's of years.
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define "largest server"... most space? fastest?  once you get up to "really friggin big", they start to specialize with what the server does- and they dont just use one, they have arrays of servers that they string together to make supercomputers... refining your question would help
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very bright future next to software
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In computing, virtualization involves the process of presenting computing resources in ways that users and applications can easily get value out of them, rather than presenting them in a way dictated by their implementation, geographic location, or physical packaging. In other words, it provides a logical rather than physical view of data, computing power, storage capacity, and other resources.
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The Computer for the 21st Century\nMark Weiser
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The only place that I could find is  http://www.betterwaycomputing.com/Phase10.htm\n\nit's not the best. It's not even good but it's a start...
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IBM Introduces 'World Community Grid'\n\nPublic invited to donate idle computer time for global humanitarian effort\n\nARMONK, N.Y., November 16, 2004— IBM, along with representatives of the world's leading science, education and philanthropic organizations, today launched World Community Grid, a global humanitarian effort that applies the unused computing power of individual and business computers to help address the world's most difficult health and societal problems.\n\nWorld Community Grid will harness the vast and unused computational power of the world's computers and direct it at research designed to help unlock genetic codes that underlie diseases like AIDS and HIV, Alzheimer's and cancer, improve forecasting of natural disasters and support studies that can protect the world's food and water supply. Anyone can volunteer to donate the idle and unused time on a computer by downloading World Community Grid's free software and registering at www.worldcommunitygrid.org.
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Thats a pretty broad question!  What part of the world of computers?  PC's  faster, cheaper, but not better.\nFor servers, the trend is towards virtualization, and IBM\nis currently the leader in my opinion.
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That is writing applications either for creating or maintaining clusters and grids or that are aware of cluster and grids and make use of them. \n\nClustering machines is a way of turning multiple machines into a single virtual machine. This might be done in case one of the machines fail, it is often done to create a sort of super computer. \n\nGrid computing is similer in concept. Basically it takes the excess CPU  time on idle machines and makes use of it and or uses devoted machines to break parts of a task/problem down into smaller parts all assigned to a computer in the grid. Some examples are the search for intellgent life. Modeling and breaking encryption schemes are two common uses for grid computing.