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CERN's Particle Smashers List Their Toughest Tech Challenges

Posted by samzenpus on from the this-is-hard dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Researchers at CERN have detailed some of the big technology problems they need to solve to help the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) solve some of the fundamental questions about the nature of the universe. 'You make it, we break it' is the CERN openlab motto which looks at emerging tech: data acquisition, computing platforms, data storage architectures, compute management and provisioning and more are on the to do list."

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  1. Biggest challenge is avoidance. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some challenges are stuff they want to do but are not able to. But there are other challenges about stuff they might be able to do, but they should not do. Like inadvertently creating a small black hole that swallows up the Earth. Europe? that is OK, no big loss. But the whole Earth? nah. That is not done.

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