If the LHC Computing Grid was Mine…Written by Abdulrehman on November 14th, 2008
First of all, if you do not know what LHC is, then you must be living in a planet like Neptune because it has been on the ‘buzz’ on earth for a long time now. Anyways, The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead ions, each moving at approximately 99.999999% of the speed of light. It has a lot to do with Physics, and it’s operation would tell more about the unknown particle ‘Higgs Boson’ and the Standard Model.
As I was saying, the experiments in the Large Hadron Collider will produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which will be distributed over the LHC Computing Grid. The LHC Computing Grid is a distribution network designed to handle the massive amount of data that will be produced by the Large Hadron Collider. The data stream from the detectors provides approximately 300 GB/s, which is filtered for ‘interesting events’, resulting in a “raw data” stream of about 300 MB/s.
300 MB/s is about 600 times my current internet speed, i.e. 512 KBps. With this you can download 37.5 MB every second and a movie for download would take only 19 seconds, you can imagine the storage yourself! I can think how many websites I could potentially block by over-loading their servers and I’d be more like a King of the Internet! This is only a little about the LHC Computing Grid, what would you do if you had such a huge network of data transfer?
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First of all, if you do not know what LHC is, then you must be living in a planet like Neptune because it has been on the ‘buzz’ on earth for a long time now. Anyways, The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead ions, each moving at approximately 99.999999% of the speed of light. It has a lot to do with Physics, and it’s operation would tell more about the unknown particle ‘Higgs Boson’ and the Standard Model.
As I was saying, the experiments in the Large Hadron Collider will produce about 15 petabytes of data per year, which will be distributed over the LHC Computing Grid. The LHC Computing Grid is a distribution network designed to handle the massive amount of data that will be produced by the Large Hadron Collider. The data stream from the detectors provides approximately 300 GB/s, which is filtered for ‘interesting events’, resulting in a “raw data” stream of about 300 MB/s.
300 MB/s is about 600 times my current internet speed, i.e. 512 KBps. With this you can download 37.5 MB every second and a movie for download would take only 19 seconds, you can imagine the storage yourself! I can think how many websites I could potentially block by over-loading their servers and I’d be more like a King of the Internet! This is only a little about the LHC Computing Grid, what would you do if you had such a huge network of data transfer?
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thanks for the info…really nice
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Holy Crap, I would also do such stuff but don’t you think that it is impossible for a normal computer to handle such speed? Even web-hosts can’t give that much speed to an individual user! BTW, check out the deisgn with ma name!
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I have heard have about the LHC before but didn’t know this..thanks for posting
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I’m not from Neptune but I’m sure I never heard about LHC before. My Grid Computing knowledge is not that high. It sounds good speed to me. I’m using 3.6Mb/s connection. This is about 83 times higher than my connection speed. Maybe, in 10 or 20 years time, it will be available to all of us.
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Never heard about this before. thanks for mentioning this here
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test, thanks for info
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I am from Earth (most days) and I have heard of this collider. First, I would ask my son the geek what HE would do with it, and then hand it over to him! Scary thought: Geeks with power…Gah! I am wondering, will the next catch phrase be “petabyte me”? Thanks for the interesting article Your Royal LHC-ness.
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Hmmm it’s hard to say. I would probably break something with so much awesome power!
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I would probibly attack the pentagon and any other high security computer network possible. MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA lol. no but seriously that’s what i’d do.
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