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"These experiments have shown the power of the link-up of 140 computing centers around the world known as the Grid which processes the vast amounts of informati
by joshes 16y ago
"These experiments have shown the power of the link-up of 140 computing centers around the world known as the Grid which processes the vast amounts of information that ion collisions produce."
I wonder if there is any sort of distributed, volunteer computing program that those of us so inclined could participate in to lend a hand to the processing efforts; something along the lines of SETI@home and Folding@home would certainly be helpful I would think. Such high amounts of new, raw data could surely use any help that they can get in the processing stage.
- aquadoctorbob 16y agoLHC@home seems to be the closest thing, but Wikipedia notes: > BOINC users who are considering joining this project should know that it only occasionally has work; the project is used for design and repair considerations related to the LHC. There are currently no plans to use the project to do computation on the data that will be collected by the LHC.
- juiceandjuice 16y agoLHC's main problem has more to do with massive amounts of I/O rather than processing. It'd be better to set up a distributed database torrent than processing.