Computing for particle physics in perspective

Source: Quantam Diaries

In many ways our data management and distribution problems are similar to those of Netflix streaming movies, except that their total data volume is 12 TB and ours is 20000 TB. Long-term data access and preservation is becoming a growing conce ...
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Big Blue supers crunch kaon decay

Source: The Register

Looking at the fundamental properties of matter can take some serious computing grunt. Take the calculation needed to help understand kaon decay – a subatomic particle interaction that helps explain why the universe is ma ...
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CERN’s prodigal neutralino comes back from outer space

Source: Quantam Diaries

Christer Fuglesang, a former physicist who worked at CERN and now an European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut brought back to CERN a neutralino he had taken along on his mission to the Internal Space Station in 2009. Yesterday, Christer ...
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Cosmic harmonies: Fellows Friday with Bilge Demirkoz

Source: TED

CERN particle physicist Bilge Demirköz investigates everything from dark matter to the possibility of antigalaxies, trying to understand what we — and the universe — are made of. What is it about space and the investigation of dark matte ...
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David Cronenberg and Robert Pattinson May Do Another Film Together

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David Cronenberg‘s new movie Cosmopolis premieres tomorrow at Cannes, and barring some terrible reviews or other similar misfortune, it looks like it won’t be the director’s only film with star Robert Pattinson. The actor now says that, i ...
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Gran Sasso: Chamber of physics

Source: Nature.com

Gran Sasso's Large Volume Detector (LVD) searches for neutrino bursts from supernovae. ENRICO SACCHETTI The drive along Italy's highway A24 from the central Adriatic coast towards Rome begins with a winding climb into the snow-covered Apenni ...
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Allied Electronics Sets Two Records in TDK-Lambda Sales

Source: Street Insider

FORT WORTH, TX -- (Marketwire) -- 05/23/12 -- Allied Electronics, a trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE: ECM), was recognized by TDK-Lambda Americas Inc. as the 2011 Distributor of the Year and the HWS Series Champion. TDK-Lambda i ...
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New Krasznahorkai

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American Physics Dreams Deferred

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

May 22, 2012 1:03 pm Share with others: By DENNIS OVERBYE / The New York Times Correction Appended When three American astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the universe was speeding up in defia ...
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