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disCERNing Data Analysis

Posted by Hemos on from the making-more-sense-of-things dept.

technodummy writes: "Wired is reporting how CERN is driving the Linux-based, EU funded, DataGRID project. And no, they say, it's nothing like Seti@Home. The description on the site of the project is: ' The objective is to enable next generation scientific exploration which requires intensive computation and analysis of shared large-scale databases, from hundreds of TeraBytes to PetaBytes, across widely distributed scientific communities.'" If you're interested in this, check out the Fermi Lab work with LinuxNetworkX data as well as the all-powerful Google search on the Fermi Collider Linux project. As jamie points out, "Colliders produce *amazing* amounts of data in *amazingly* short time periods... on the order of "here's a gigabyte, you have 10 milliseconds to pull whatever's valuable out of it before the next gigabyte arrives".

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  1. fp? by n3r0.m4dski11z · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    why yes it is!

    props to netbsd

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  2. Anyone know by wiredog · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's up with Bubba?

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    1. Re:Anyone know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Don't know, been unreachable all day (UK time).

  3. Obligatory Type 13 Planet Comment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a pea i tells ya! the size of a pea!

  4. Re:Technology transfer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can have a Beowolf cluster of them.

  5. tri-delt got felt by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    from the article:
    As jamie points out, "Colliders produce *amazing* amounts of data in *amazingly* short time periods... on the order of "here's a gigabyte, you have 10 milliseconds to pull whatever's valuable out of it before the next gigabyte arrives".

    Doe this not sound like the last sorority (after)party you went to?
  6. I wonder... by GISboy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How long it would take to index my pr0n collection?
    In a database no less.

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