The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and Linux
10 settembre 2008, 21:17 News , Open Source September 10, 2008, 21:17 
As you follow the procedures started this morning in the Large Hadron Collider , come on here and there the spotlight on information technology adopted by CERN to handle the enormous amount of data from the monumental particle accelerator.
For the analysis of this information has been made an impressive network for distributed computing called " LHC Computing Grid "(LCG).
It is a network consisting of 60 thousand servers connected together and located in 11 among research institutions and universities around the world.
LCG is in turn connected permanently with another 150 team of scientists who can tap into real-time data produced by the algorithm of distributed computing.
No wonder that for this massive infrastructure is an operating system was adopted ad hoc, self-produced a Linux distribution called " Scientific Linux CERN ", now the next release 5.2 (SLC52).
September 11th, 2008 at 9:44
Clarification:
not only "60 thousand servers connected together and located in 11 among research institutions and universities around the world."
There are also many users who simply make available the unused computing power of their computers to work with the world's most important scientific projects.
With interfaces like Boinc you can do this.
On Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-managerAnd you can choose which project to contribute.
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September 11th, 2008 at 9:52
Clarification commendable and publication of the comment rather than a duty!
September 11th, 2008 at 10:30
Mythical! Thank you! Your excellent post! I tried just a news story in this style!
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