The Grid, the future of the Net where you can download films in seconds

Scientists at Cern, the particle physics centre, have developed a new technology, The Grid which could dramatically increase the speed of transfer and communications. Its currently being developed to capture the super high volume of data being generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the new particle accelerator built to probe the origin of the universe. Re-purposing it to create parallel internet processing could revolutionize networking. Read more in the Times Online: