World's Largest Computing Grid Goes Live to Crunch LHC Data
Posted 10/06/08 at 04:35:24 PM | by Andy Salisbury
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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Hands off my CPU cycles you
Submitted by horzo on Mon, 2008-10-06 17:14
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. :)
no they are tiny little
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 2008-10-06 17:53
no they are tiny little toilets man.
Send in the memo..
Submitted by Talcum X on Tue, 2008-10-07 08:01
Make sure they give you a courtecy
flush.***********
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How many billions of dollars did they spend on this project.
Submitted by zodi on Mon, 2008-10-06 15:46
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.
Submitted by Digital-Storm on Mon, 2008-10-06 16:05
So you would rather "Fold" instead of helping with the LHC? When has any folding found cures?
Submitted by karnak on Tue, 2008-10-07 07:44
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!
Submitted by karnak on Mon, 2008-10-06 15:31
My distributed computing folding time already goes to Rosetta@home, the lesser known cousin of Folding@home.
Submitted by Keith E. Whisman on Mon, 2008-10-06 14:36
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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