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J.C.R. Licklider
(1915-1990) - who was often forced to work monotonic data management
acitivies during his cybernetic and psycho acoustic researches- had
designed the theory of a computer which is the best for the people:
interactive, has multimedia system, and easy to use. All of this he did
in the ’50s which was the age of computer-giants.
His plans and dreamlike
ideas were always followed by acts, so his associates developed one
hardware- and software novelty after another, in his self led research
office: the graphic screen, the mouse, split screen video conference,
first hypertext based system. In 1963 he suggested the computers’
connection into a network, so research groups can cooperate in a more
successful way. The first experimental network started to operate in
1969, launching the evolutionary process which led to the internet.
The PC success story
began in the ’80s. Soon born the idea how to assemble a huge computing
capacity system from the cheap tools. In the Grid systems not only PCs can be connected, but bigger machines.
The conception of spaced
computational environment assembled from the users’ computers had been
introduced by distributed.net (dnet) and SETI@home in the ’90s.
Both projects proved not
only that the conception is perfect, but that it works better than
predicted. The meaning „Grid-computing” is being used since the 1995
I-WAY experiment, when 17 North American supercomputers were connected
for a short time with the help of amazingly fast networks. Several
research projects can be traced back to this experiment, furthermore
yet more Grid plans are being born, mostly by IBM. From 2000. the
financial sources started to rise. Regular global networks doesn’t, but
subsystems are already exist, i.e. the european DataGrid.
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