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16 October 2012
Servers at the CERN Data Centrre (Image: CERN)
Anyone in the world with a computer can contribute to research at CERN. Through the LHC@Home project, volunteers can offer up spare computing power to simulate and process collisions happening inside the Large Hadron Collider.
CERN LHC - To discover the secrets of the Universe
CERN recently improved the program with a new feature that helps scientists monitor the system that distributes work among volunteers’ computers. But the new feature is not the work of a CERN employee; it is the work of a college undergraduate who had the chance to work with CERN through the 2012 Google Summer of Code.
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CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is one of the world’s largest and most respected centres for scientific research. Its business is fundamental physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. At CERN, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments are used to study the basic constituents of matter — the fundamental particles. By studying what happens when these particles collide, physicists learn about the laws of Nature.
The instruments used at CERN are particle accelerators and detectors. Accelerators boost beams of particles to high energies before they are made to collide with each other or with stationary targets. Detectors observe and record the results of these collisions.
Founded in 1954, the CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near Geneva. It was one of Europe’s first joint ventures and now has 20 Member States.
Read more:
Symmetry breaking: A summer of (physics code): http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/october-2012/a-summer-of-physics-code
Related links:
LHC@Home project: http://lhcathome.web.cern.ch/LHCathome/
Large Hadron Collider: http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/HowLHC-en.html
2012 Google Summer of Code: http://code.google.com/soc/
Images, Text, Credit: CERN.
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