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Turns out the LHC isn't just useful for discovering the Higgs Boson - it also works for advertising hard drives!
by fancyfredbot 2y ago
Turns out the LHC isn't just useful for discovering the Higgs Boson - it also works for advertising hard drives!
- alephnerd 2y agoA lot of distributed systems innovations came out of the High Energy Physics space. Nvidia itself was basically bankrolled by DoE labs for much of it's early existence, MPI was a HPC project driven by Oak Ridge, the WWW was a side project at CERN to simplify information retrieval, etc. High Energy Physics is a very data and computationally heavy problem that lends itself nicely to HPC, and a lot of the innovations in CS subfields like Bioinformatics, Machine Learning, and Theory was enabled by this research.