I've read on theregister.co.uk that CERN is teaming with CISCO on networking. It certainly needs a lot of computing power on its Grid, which spans the whole world.
Tullio

CERN's Large Hadron Collider can generate one petabyte per second of data (since such comparisons are required, Cisco's canned statement says that's equivalent to around 20,000 Blu-ray disks).
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/10/cisco_spins_cern_partnership/

Official updates:

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates

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Personally I have simulated a billion events (collisions) on my computers via VirtualLHC@home and have been admitted to the Billionaire Club. No champagne, however.
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I hereby forthwith authorize some Asti Spumante !!

Personally I have simulated a billion events (collisions) on my computers via VirtualLHC@home and have been admitted to the Billionaire Club. No champagne, however.
Tullio

Salute:)

Thanks.I shall toast tomorrow if Samantha lands happily. I hope that Russian parachutes are better than American parachutes. I have alread followed two failed launches.
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Samantha can only drink ISSpresso:)
Buongiorno dallo spazio.
https://twitter.com/astrosamantha

Come to Think about it. Where do all bubbles in spumante go in zero gravity?

Thanks.I shall toast tomorrow if Samantha lands happily. I hope that Russian parachutes are better than American parachutes. I have alread followed two failed launches.
Tullio

Cheers in advance Tullio :)

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The Soyuz has landed.
Tullio
Samantha is smiling. Good!

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Going back to the topic of this thread, on June CERN Courier these is an interview with Roberto Battiston, now head of the Italian Space Agency, a physicist who explains why he went from particle physics to astrophysics. He was one of the leaders in the AMS-2 instrument, together with Samuel Ting, now aboard the International Space Station which is looking for dark mater and other exotic particles at energies far above those of the LHC. In the postwar period there were no particle accelerators in Italy and many physicists detected and studied cosmic rays, which are free. There was an observatory at Testa Grigia, just under the Cervino (Matterhorn) mountain and you had to be also a mountaineer to get there.
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There was an observatory at Testa Grigia, just under the Cervino (Matterhorn) mountain and you had to be also a mountaineer to get there.
Tullio

There is something with the Alps Tullio.
Many scientist are making breakthroughs just by beeing there and walk around.

Summer vacations in the Dolomites were a tradition among the professors of the Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Roma since the end of the XIX century. Beyond the academic walls, people like Tullio Levi-Civita, Federigo Enriques and Ugo Amaldi sr., together with their families, were meeting friends and colleagues in Cortina, San Vito, Dobbiaco, Vigo di Fassa and Selva, enjoying trekking together with scientific discussions.
Enrico Fermi was a frequent guest. Many important steps in modern physics, in particular the development of the Fermi-Dirac statistics and the Fermi theory of beta decay, are related to scientific discussions held in the region of the Dolomites.

Schrödinger came up with the wave-function in Switzerland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

Also the Alpi Apuane are good for science. I have met Prof. Giuseppe "Beppo" Occhialini in his cottage on a ridge dividing Emilia Romagna from Tuscany and I gained his praise for having recognized the Apuane peaks on the horizon. There is a British physicist, professor Towler, who holds summer schools in the Apuane mountains above Lucca. I wish I could participate.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

I usually can find X because most of the time it is the first letter in the equation. There it is. You lost me at the imaginary number and it went downhill from there. As a pirate the only thing I know to do with a Planck is wok it, tasty stuff with the right seasoning. I'll make this as short as possible.

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Sometimes I wonder, what happened to all the people I gave directions to?
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SETI@home classic CPU time 22,169 hours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

I usually can find X because most of the time it is the first letter in the equation. There it is. You lost me at the imaginary number and it went downhill from there. As a pirate the only thing I know to do with a Planck is wok it, tasty stuff with the right seasoning. I'll make this as short as possible.
Bob

There is more to the story how he come up to the theory Bob.
Schrödinger was a womenizer as well staying at a hotel together with a woman in Switzerland:)

Updates:

http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates

Love that Google Street View!

This is so cool!

https://www.google.com/maps/views/view/streetview/cern/cern-large-hadron-collider-tunnel/PwHC1mn7oBMAAAQJODm7Kw?gl=us&heading=305&pitch=84&fovy=75

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Yep, both those links are worth looking at.

Well modern aircraft carriers do have their function...so would say they are useless!

But F35 certanly are! :D

Stupid statements have no place in a Science thread.

I do believe that counts for the rest of the forums as well..

A nice view of the Control Room:

https://www.google.ch/maps/@46.309941,6.076205,3a,75y,336.2h,67.52t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sHfA-IUkvTF7jvr3i0xeP7w!2e0!3e5!7i13312!8i6656

The Data Centre:

https://www.google.ch/maps/@46.232572,6.045911,3a,75y,212.09h,83.5t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s8hPYpKPrW54PbJCcyGteRg!2e0!3e5!7i13312!8i6656

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I suspect a tour around Cern would be interesting to see all the kit and what the money has been spent on.

I think that just reading CERN Courier you can get an idea of what CERN is and what it has meant in the history of science. One of its Founding Fathers, Edoardo Amaldi, asked to prohibit any military research in CERN. Scientists from all over the world work in CERN. One of the CERN projects I am running, ATLAS@home, is the work of a pretty girl from China.
Tullio

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The CERN Dancing Club is now on holidays.
http://club-cdc.web.cern.ch/club-cdc/

http://home.web.cern.ch/cern-people/clubs

I suspect a tour around Cern would be interesting to see all the kit and what the money has been spent on.

Something on my to-do list!

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I visited CERN in 1964 because a relative of mine was working in the Theory Division. Now things have changed and CERN is much bigger. It is the most important center for particle physics in the world, thanks to Edoardo Amaldi and Pierre Auger.Europe needed a European laboratory after the war, but now it is a world class laboratory. Amaldi was also one of the Founding Fathers of the European Space Agency, which is making headlines with its Rosetta-Philae mission. When Europeans don't kill each other in wars, they can cooperate.
Tullio

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