Web will go 'hyperspeed'
Web 2.0
08 April 2008
A new scientific development, known as the "grid", could allow the internet to reach hyperspeed.
Research at particle physics labs in Cern, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, has revealed, a grid system could increase speeds 10,000 times by using fibre optic cables.
"With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine," said Professor Britton, member of the research initiative.
The grid is already in place on 55,000 servers. There are 8,000 in the UK and universities could have access to the 'hyperweb' later this year.
Research at Cern uses a Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-kilometre long underground accelerator ring, which fires protons at close to the speed of light.
New infrastructure is essential to maintain the internet, which is struggling to allow the transmission of increasingly large packets of information.
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