Ever wonder how scientists plan to analyze all of the data they obtain from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)? Well, wonder no further, because the fine folks over at Symmetry Breaking have laid out the details of the massive computer system responsible for sharing the test results with physicists around the world: the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and its American counterpart the Open Science Grid.
And its good that we have all of this networked computing power at our disposal, because in just the month when it was colliding particles at record-breaking energies in 2009, the LHC obtained data from over 100,000 collisions. As it powers up to even higher energies, there will be even more data that will need to be analyzed by scientists around the world.
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When the Lhc first started experimenting the whole world was talking about it & almost everybody curious enough was watching the live launch broadcast on tv but after the mechanical glitch the media & general public has lost interest in it. Let’s hope nothing of the sort happens again.
dont worry when it makes a black hole and we are all depressed, knowing we will die soon becaue a bunch of retarded data robotic boffins blew up the world nazi style with their brutish machine the oworld will noticce
morituri, are you joking, or just someone deserving of our compassion for your mental condition?