Blog Entries tagged 'internet'

May Those Who Help The Most Win

michel@piccaya.com — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0100

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Project 10 to the 100th is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.

Google Chrome

michel@piccaya.com — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0100

Google Chrome is a web browser built with open source code and developed by Google. The name is derived from the graphical user interface frame, or "chrome", of web browsers. Chromium is the name of the open source project behind Google Chrome, released under the BSD license.

A beta version for Microsoft Windows was released on 2 September 2008 in 43 languages.
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CERN

insolit@piccaya.com — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:00:00 +0100

The world's largest particle physics laboratory

The Large Hadron Collider will produce roughly 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of data annually – enough to fill more than 1.7 million dual-layer DVDs a year!

Thousands of scientists around the world want to access and analyse this data, so CERN is collaborating with institutions in 33 different countries to operate a distributed computing and data storage infrastructure: the LHC Computing Grid (LCG).

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