Yknow how the Large Hadron Collider produces a whole crapload of information? It's a massive amount of data that takes massive computing power to make sense of. I guess to solve this problem, they have a vast data distribution and analysis grid.
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http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110119/full/469282a.html[/href]
I thought these were two of the most interesting and important paragraphs of the article:
Quote: "So instead, the Grid automatically spreads copies of the data geographically. Inside a small partitioned section of the computing centre, a wall of panels bristles with bright-orange fibre-optic cable. This is the heart of the system, and it routes data to sites across the globe at a blistering rate of 5 gigabytes per second."
Quote: "The physics data set from 30 March now makes up just 0.02% of the total data collected by the ATLAS detector. Most physicists on the collaboration are using that initial set without even realizing, as they acquire sections for analysis and combine them with other data sets. The first hints of a Higgs boson may already be stored on a computer disk in Mumbai, Melbourne or one of the many other sites to which LHC data are distributed. But even if it is there, the Higgs will stay hidden until many more petabytes have flowed through the Grid. "
(this is a bit lacking in context if you haven't read the whole article but whatevs)
type pos2
x as float
y as float
endtype
dim pointArr(-1) as pos2
for n=0 to 1000
array insert at bottom pointArr()
pointArr(n).x=rnd(256)
pointArr(n).y=rnd(256)
next n
drawPoints()
wait key
end
function drawPoints()
lock pixels
for n=0 to array count(pointArr())
dot pointarr(n).x, pointarr(n).y
next n
unlock pixels
endfunction
