CERN's Particle Smashers List Their Toughest Tech Challenges 31
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at CERN have detailed some of the big technology problems they need to solve to help the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) solve some of the fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. 'You make it, we break it' is the CERN openlab motto which looks at emerging tech: data acquisition, computing platforms, data storage architectures, compute management and provisioning and more are on the to do list."
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No, it wasn't. Nor was the rest of the thread.
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Of course a small black hole, it black holes actually exist, would quickly evaporate.
As we can observe black holes we can be quite sure they exist. ;)
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Meh. You cannot observe anything, ever. At best you can analyze your own neurons firing.
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You can observe the black hole if you are inside the event horizon, however you can't tell anyone about it afterward as your message can't get out
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i am pretty sure the gravity gets out...
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If CERN creates small black holes, so do cosmic ray impacts.
Also note: The atomic bomb tests didn't knock a hole in the bottom of the oceans and allow them to drain.
joke (Score:3)
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I was constantly shaking my head reading this book.
The actual document (Score:5, Informative)
... not just an article talking about it.
https://zenodo.org/record/8765... [zenodo.org]
Scientific Linux (Score:2)
'You make it, we break it' is the CERN openlab motto which looks at emerging tech: data acquisition, computing platforms, data storage architectures, compute management and provisioning and more are on the to do list."
So did CERN make or break Scientific Linux? Why would computing platforms even be a consideration for them, given that along w/ Fermi, they are among the creators of Scientific Linux?
Filling Needs (Score:3)
I love seeing documents like this.
A lot of cool stuff gets built because someone has a need for it.
My current employer (cloudant.com) got started the same way. A couple of LHC researchers couldn't get the data storage throughput levels they needed with existing solutions so they built a new one.
I'm sure if you look around you can find tons of stuff that comes from papers like this.
Non-spammy link, actual document (PDF) (Score:3)
CERN Computing Center (Score:2, Interesting)
Some numbers about the computing power at the CERN computing center (July 2013):
Number of machines: 17,000 processors with 85,000 cores (Source)
All physics computing is done using the Linux operating system and commodity PC hardware. There are few Solaris server machines as well, especially for databases (Oracle).
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Some numbers about the computing power at the CERN computing center (July 2013):
Number of machines: 17,000 processors with 85,000 cores (Source)
All physics computing is done using the Linux operating system and commodity PC hardware. There are few Solaris server machines as well, especially for databases (Oracle).
And Yes, it can run Crysis.
Heard a talk from a CERN physicist (Score:3)
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Luckilly most of that is done in the trigger of the experiment, where dedicated hardware solutions filter out a lot. These boards typically sits physically close to the experiment, monitoring a few key subdetectors. When one of a list of pre-programmed conditions occur, they read out all the data from that event, and pass it on to higher levels of sorting. This has to happen very quickly, as there is a new collission every 25 ns, and each of the subdetectors can only hold the data for a few events before it
Billions of dollar in the lab (Score:3)
And we still have to drink Sanka.
"You make it, we break it." (Score:2)
The nuclear and elemental particle physicists' message to God.