RHIC Operational

Posted by michael on Tuesday June 13, 2000 @03:17AM from the don't-be-too-proud-of-this-technological-terror-you've-constructed dept.

Stephen Adler/John Lajoie writes "No, the universe did not implode! Nor did we destroy the vacuum. But some very nice science will begin with the advent of collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, just completed and colliding beams, at Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island NY. Check out the first nice pictures of exploding mini-bang. (And by the way, the lab is using linux boxes up the wazoo to analyze all this data. up to 60 megabytes a second over a 40 week running period each year from now until the government stops funding this collider.)"

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Re:Powered by VA Linux! by DaveHowe · 2000-06-13 06:26 · Score: 2

The Linux computers in question are 148 VA Linux 501's in 8 racks, all black. And they're planning on getting more.
Then they'll probably be mandating ear protection in that room; with 148 fans, the noise is already up to half-shouting-to-be-heard.
Hmm. maybe they should be looking at some of the pump-cooled systems then - they are much more effective than fans in confined quarters, and much, much quieter.
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