15 million gigabytes of data

Visage · 15 Feb 2006 at 17:14

Thats how much the Large Hadron Collider will produce every single year. :eek:

It seems that they've just started testing the computer grid that will process it all, and got a throughput of 8 gigbits per second.

Mind you, I overclocked my Spectrum 48k to manage twice that.

Visage · 15 Feb 2006 at 17:24

Andr3w said:
Large Hadron Collider, explain?

Its like a big car crash, but, pardoxically, with very small cars.

Visage · 15 Feb 2006 at 17:28

I used some (much smaller scale) stuff for part of my MSc thesis - firing neutrons at Pb nuclei to measure the differential cross-section.

Sounds cool, but was quite tedious.

Visage · 16 Feb 2006 at 12:36

[ASSE]Hinchy said:
Rather worringly, and perhaps disturbingly, my eyes automatically switched around the D and R in Hadron.

They do it everytime I've read it in this thread

You do realise that that means you're 21% homogay?