World's Largest Computing Grid Goes Live to Crunch LHC Data
World's Largest Computing Grid Goes Live to Crunch LHC Data
Posted 10/06/2008 at 1:35pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Last Friday the world’s largest computing grid was launched in order to help tackle the nearly 15 million gigabytes of data that will be coming out of the Large Hadron Collider every year. 33 countries are already contributing 140 computer centers to the project, but with that much data, they’ll need worldwide assistance.
Here in the U.S. we’ve got 15 universities and three Department of Energy national laboratories contributing their power to the project (and maybe you, if you’ve decided to contribute your spare CPU cycles to the project). And every last bit of that help will be needed, because when the LHC finally gets up to full speed it will produce enough data to fill six CD’s per second.
Once the data has been processed, physicists from around the world will begin searching for he tiny signals that will lead them to discoveries about the nature of the physical universe. And perhaps then, they’ll be able to explain just why they LHC will rock us in the head.
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horzo
October 06, 2008 at 4:14pm
Hands off my CPU cycles you evil Eurotrash! Everyone knows god created the universe, dark matter is heaven, and elementary particles are tiny little angels. :)
Talcum X
October 07, 2008 at 7:01am
Make sure they give you a courtecy
flush.
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zodi
October 06, 2008 at 2:46pm
10's of Billions of dollars to build it, and they still would like my CPU cycles to help process the data.
I am all for science but you would think someone would have budgeted a couple of mainframes in there / super computers to assist with the process. Plus maybe they should only leave it on for a minute at full power. Thats only 234 GB. Ahh Toys Toys Toys..
I think my spare computing cycles will go to projects that don't have that grandeous of a budget. IE: folding@home, SETI@home, those sort of projects.
Digital-Storm
October 06, 2008 at 3:05pm
So you would rather "Fold" instead of helping with the LHC? When has any folding found cures?
karnak
October 07, 2008 at 6:44am
Folding is finding cures all the time, what has the LHC done so far other than break down? No higgs boson, no god particle, no wai!
karnak
October 06, 2008 at 2:31pm
My distributed computing folding time already goes to Rosetta@home, the lesser known cousin of Folding@home.
Keith E. Whisman
October 06, 2008 at 1:36pm
I believe that they will discover that everything is made up of Tiny Toilets. Everything is based on the toilet. Toilets not Strings. Toilets flushing on the surface of space time at different frequencies produce different atomic particles that make up everything..
That's just my belief and I'm standing by it. I believe everyone will know the truth soon.
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