New crunching project?

[m1ldslide1]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/0...collider.ap/index.html

The article is kinda funny as it talks about the whole controversy where this particle collider could accidentally destroy the earth. But on topic, it mentions at the bottom of the article:

Each year the detectors will generate 15 petabytes of data, the equivalent of a stack of CDs 12 miles tall. The data will require a high speed global network of computers for analysis.

Sounds like a DC project if I ever heard of one. Anybody hear about this being in the works?

 

[imaheadcase]

I forget article link, but they wording is kinda off in that CNN one. They are just using internet2 to transmit the data to other systems for analysis. Still it would be cool for a DC project.

 

[Assimilator1]

Yea I too would of thought this would be ideal for DC, however AFAIk theis no plans for this, unless LHC@home is altered for this purpose?

The article is kinda funny as it talks about the whole controversy where this particle collider could accidentally destroy the earth.

As I understand it their was never any danger of this happening, it was some BS whipped up by a couple of nutters & published by the NY times, IIRC.

In rebutting doomsday scenarios, CERN scientists point out that cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth, and triggering collisions similar to those planned for the collider, since the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.

 

[Rudy Toody]

Report says we are safe from BLack Holes.

 

[Denithor]

Now if we could just get someone to start paying for DC...

Like a company farming out a huge design simulation or something that requires massive cpu crunching they couldn't hope to complete with in-house hardware.