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CERN, the Big Bang and Impact On the IT Industry

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the these-are-a-few-of-my-favorite-things dept.

whencanistop writes "ComputerWeekly have put together a nice short guide (with lots of links) of what is going on at CERN. They've got a nice slant though on what this big bang experiment is going to mean for the IT Industry. Interesting slant on the world's largest grid and the database clustering technology that they are using. They have also picked up on the amusing rap video by CERN's scientists that has been wandering around YouTube."

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  1. We need more evil scientists by David+Gerard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Mad scientists are way too nice and sweet-natured these days. We need more evil geniuses. Who'll do things like run the Large Hardon Collider on Vista.

    (Okay, that's too evil. They can run it on Google Chrome.)

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    1. Re:We need more evil scientists by GweeDo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do you want to destroy the world?
      -ACCEPT- -DENY-

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    2. Re:We need more evil scientists by David+Gerard · · Score: 4, Funny

      My large hardon collider pushes large, energised hardons through a ring repeatedly, faster and faster, as smoothly and tightly as possible, until they clash and spray matter in all directions.

      ... What?

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    3. Re:We need more evil scientists by Drantin · · Score: 4, Funny

      Traitor!

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  2. Terrabytes by pablomme · · Score: 5, Funny

    a massive Linux-based storage system supplying many terrabytes of disk storage

    Clearly the effect of being buried 100m underground.

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  3. geek viagra by einer · · Score: 4, Funny

    10 Gigabit Wan

    I'll be in my bunk

  4. LHC webcam by Stroot · · Score: 5, Funny

    LHC webcam: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

  5. Re:Sys Admin at CERN by nomadic · · Score: 5, Funny

    And sysadminning for scientists is a goddamn nightmare. I'd just like you to imagine expert Fortran programmers who can't actually work a computer. And are way smarter than you in every way except ones that involve communicating with humans.

    Wow, when a sysadmin complains about someone else being bad at communicating with humans, that's saying something.

  6. Re:If CERN fails by suggsjc · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one would not want to ride on the "Large Subway Collider"!

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  7. Re:Excellent rap! by gardyloo · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would almost risk having them hate science, as long as they also can't stand rap music.

  8. Re:Best source for evil scientist news by dogdick · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was listening to a radio show where they were interviewing one of the scientists from LHC and they asked about destroying the world. The host asked something to the effect of "what could go wrong that would end up destroying the world?" The scientist responded with, "nothing would go wrong. It's an experiment, that would just be the outcome."

    Im curious what its like to have to walk around with balls that huge everyday.