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Science Magazine's Highlight Of 2002

Posted by timothy on from the year-end-punditry-continues dept.

gingerTabs writes "BBC News is reporting that the 2002 Science Magazine highlight of 2002 is the discovery of the small RNA molecule. Whould've thunk it, eh?"

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  1. SNO, PDSF, and neutrinos... by anzha · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It ought to be noted that the SNO guys that did all the hardwork to find out what was going on with the neutrinos used PDSF, a large linux cluster used in a batch farm configuration. The Japanese observatory that verified the work also used PDSF, as I understand.

    The PDSF guys got a lot of thank yous and praise for the help they gave in building, running, and growing their cluster. PDSF as a result has been getting a lot of kudos from the NERSC management. With any luck that will translate into better backing.

    At any rate, I thought I'd include them since /. readers like to hear how Linux is used IRL science.

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