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____/ Chris Ahlstrom on Monday 07 Dec 2009 23:11 : \____
> nessuno pulled this Usenet boner:
>
>> <Quote>
>> The biggest, most powerful atom smasher the world has ever seen, the
>> LHC (Large Hadron Collider), with its 17-mile underground loop and
>> TeVs (Teraelectronvolts) of proton beams, is finally up and running,
>> with Linux in control...
>>
>> That's right. The LHC runs on Linux. To be exact, its uses a modified
>> version of Scientific Linux, which in turn is based on RHEL (Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux).
>>
>> This distribution's name says it all. Scientific Linux is meant for
>> use by large research labs such as CERN and the U.S.'s equivalent high-
>> energy physics group, Fermilab. Its main goal is to allow scientists
>> to easily customize it by using scripts and Red Hat/Fedora's Anaconda
>> installer. This lets every lab create its own custom distributions
>> with minimal effort while retaining compatibility with the base
>> distribution.
>>
>> With the LHC, CERN will be using it to manage both the systems
>> themselves and to make sense of the 15 petabytes -- that's 15 million
>> gigabytes -- of data the LHC is expected to generate every year.
>> Fortunately, Linux is great at super-computing.
>>
>> CERN is also using Scientific Linux to run its LCG (LHC Computing
>> Grid). The LHC isn't the fastest computer in the world, but it may set
>> the record for being the biggest computer the world has ever seen,
>> since it's made up of more than 100,000 processors from over 170 sites
>> in 34 countries. There are bigger distributed grid computing efforts,
>> such as the search for extra-terrestrial life SETI@home project and
>> the protein analysis Folding@home project, but the Linux-powered LCG
>> is probably the largest dedicated distributed grid computing
>> project....
>>
>> I don't know about you, but I'm really pleased to see Linux and open-
>> source software working hand-in-glove with perhaps the most important
>> science project of the 21st century to date. When it comes to the
>> really hard jobs, whether it's supercomputing, managing stock market
>> trades in real time, or gigantic experimental projects, Linux is the
>> way to go.
>> </Quote>
>>
>> http://blogs.computerworld.com/15202/high_energy_linux_linux_the_large_hadron_collider
>
> You can join the LHC@home project by clicking the link.
>
> (Makes me chuckle).
They say Linux is only good for experiments...
Oh, it is.
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