Closing In On The Quark-Gluon Plasma

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 18, 2003 @08:45AM from the no-cataclysm-yet dept.

Martin writes "A series of presentations and a press conference was held today at Brookhaven National Laboratory about new results from the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The latest run was finished only a few weeks ago. The results are a new milestone in the search for the Quark-Gluon Plasma, a new state of nuclear matter. The data were analyzed on large Linux clusters at BNL and in Japan and France, with the biggest cluster of about 1100 dual-CPU nodes located at the RHIC Computing Facility. It's nice to see that results are out so soon after the data were taken. There were previous stories about RHIC on /., here(1), here(2) and here(3)."

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Gluons? by grub · 2003-06-18 08:50 · Score: 5, Funny

I've heard of strap-ons, wouldn't a gluon hurt when removed?

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BNL by das_katz_socrates · 2003-06-18 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

"The data were analyzed on large Linux clusters at BNL..."

Who would've thought that the musical group Bare Naked Ladies ran linux.

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