# First Thuesday - CERN, The Grid gets real

- Institution: CERN
- Department: CERN Miscellaneous Lectures
- Speaker: Leslie Robertson
- Year: 2003
- Language: English
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3015896)
- Licence: [CERN](http://copyright.web.cern.ch)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

A few years ago, "the Grid" was just a vision dreamt up by some computer scientists who wanted to share processor power and data storage capacity between computers around the world - in much the same way as today's Web shares information seamlessly between millions of computers. Today, Grid technology is a huge enterprise, involving hundreds of software engineers, and generating exciting opportunities for industry. "Computing on demand", "utility computing", "web services", and "virtualisation" are just a few of the buzzwords in the IT industry today that are intimately connected to the development of Grid technology. For this third First Tuesday @CERN, the panel will survey some of the latest major breakthroughs in building international computer Grids for science. It will also provide a snapshot of Grid-related industrial activities, with contributions from both major players in the IT sector as well as emerging Grid technology start-ups..

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## Lectures

1. [First Thuesday - CERN, The Grid gets real](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3015896/79d3e552b527), 51 min (CERN's player)