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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
VMware Fusion Helps CERN Physicists Analyze Data From Coolest Place on Earth
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| VMware, Inc., (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from
| the desktop to the datacenter, today announced physicists at CERN, the
| European Organization for Nuclear Research and the world's leading laboratory
| for particle physics, use VMware Fusion to share Linux-based computer code
| via VMware virtual machines running on Apple hardware.
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http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080910005434&newsLang=en
Recent:
Scientific Linux 5.2 Live CD Works in Persistent Mode
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| Compared with the previous version, Scientific Linux 5.2 Live CD/DVD works in
| persistent mode, which means that it will store/restore your settings if you
| run it from an USB flash drive. Also, this new feature will allow you to
| carry the USB stick with you, and boot from it whenever you need a stable and
| reliable operating system.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Scientific-Linux-5-2-Live-CD-Works-in-Persisten-Mode-91982.shtml
Related:
Computing Grid Helps Get to the Heart of Matter
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| At CERN, the PCs, CPU servers and disks are linked on a 1G-bps
| network provided by Hewlett-Packard ProCurve switches. CERN
| itself will contribute 10 percent of the total necessary
| processors for the job, including 3,500 PCs and the rest
| single- or dual-core processors all running a version of Linux
| called Scientific Linux CERN. CERN will contribute about 8,000
| processors to the computing tasks.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2134085,00.asp
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