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____/ Linonut on Thursday 11 September 2008 12:23 : \____
> * Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> Large Hadron Collider - powered by Linux
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>>| The most powerful physics project in the history of the known universe -
>>| The $10 Billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC)- shot its first light speed
>>| beam this morning around its 27 km circuit. Beyond the 20 years it took to
>>| build and half of all the world's astrophysicists, it also takes another
>>| key ingredient to make LHC work -- Linux.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/09/large-hadron-collider---powere.html
>
> Maybe our own Hadron should look into Scientific Linux:
>
> https://www.scientificlinux.org/
Aye.
Large Hadron Collider runs Linux
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| The $10 billion Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project which fired its first
| shot yesterday around its 27km circuit, runs Linux.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3006
Send the Munchkin on route to massive collision.
> The blog above contains a correction:
>
> **UPDATED** Got a comment (listed below) from a commenter with an IP
> within CERN that writes,".. the primary configuration for machines in
> the LHC computing grid (http://lcg.web.cern.ch/LCG/) is based on
> Scientific Linux distribution running directly on the hardware. This
> grid is used to receive and distribute the 15PB of data across the
> 100,000s of CPUs across the world" **
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114373&intsrc=it_blogwatch
"The U.S. portion of the global grid is a computational and data storage
infrastructure made up of more than 25,000 computers and 43,000 CPUs. The
mostly Linux-based machines are linked into the grid from universities, the
U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation and software
development groups. Pordes also said the U.S. grid offers up about 300,000
compute hours a day with 70% of it going to the particle collider project.'
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/6844
""Much of this huge endeavor is based on GNU/Linux, Globus, Condor, and a slew
of other middle-ware packages. That “open thing” again, it just seems to make
those world changing monumental scientific projects works a little better."
Not bad for 'slopware' from pimple-faced kids in mom's garage, eh? That's what
Microsoft tells us anyway...
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