Category Archives: High Energy Physics

Accelerate physics with your own computer

Fascinating article in International Science Grid This Week on how the Large Hadron Collider is planning to use a volunteer computing project called Sixtrack to design the LHC’s 2020 upgrade. Visit http://www.isgtw.org/feature/accelerate-physics-your-own-computer

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Magellan: Experiences From A Science Cloud

This is the title of a paper presented  by Lavanya Ramakrishnan et al. at the ScienceCloud2011 workshop (paper; slides). Magellan is a project funded through the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program, to investigatethe use of … Continue reading

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Application of a Distributed Cloud to High Energy Physics Data

Recently, I came across an interesting paper by R.J. Sobie et al. (2011) called “Data Intensive High Energy Physics Analysis in a Distributed Cloud.” I am interested in applications of cloud computing to astronomy, so this paper took my eye. … Continue reading

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