Chapter 246 Global Collaboration
The data generated by the lhc experiment will be completed by cooperative units around the world. Of course, cooperative units with strong strength, advanced equipment, and sufficient manpower will bear a larger share of the work. Those with weak strength, old equipment, insufficient manpower, or average personnel quality will
The share borne by the unit will naturally be smaller.
As for the personnel and number of these cooperative units, let me give you an example. You can search for Cern papers online, and you will find that the author lists of some papers are outrageously long. If I combine the author list and the unit list,
Translated, then the guaranteed update of this book of 4,000 words per day will be completed!
And not every staff member who participated in the experiment is qualified to sign the paper. You must have a certain status in the experimental group; so behind these long and outrageous lists, there are also grassroots people who go far beyond that.
The efforts of scientific researchers; the cost of high-energy physics experiments can be seen from this.
Because Professor Lu Qiujian joined Professor Schuft's laboratory, the share of tasks it undertakes has increased a lot compared to last time. The increase in tasks undertaken proves that his laboratory's status in the international high-energy physics community has increased.
So despite the increased workload, Professor Schuft is still very happy.
"You guys have to work harder during this period. I will apply to the school to allocate some interns and support staff to help!" Of course, the core work can only be done by Lu Qiujian, Dietrich, Ludwig, Karl and Frey.
Derek and others have finished. Finding interns can only relieve them of the most basic physical work; as for the logistics staff, their main job is to help these people make tea, coffee, clean, order takeout, etc.
Free them from daily chores so they can devote themselves to data analysis.
"Lu is responsible for arranging and managing the daily work, and then Lu will summarize the results of each stage to me!" Professor Xuft delegated the management power to Lu Qiujian. Of course, in terms of the use of new methods, I am afraid that there is no one in the world.
There is no one better than him.
"Okay!" Lu Qiujian did not give in. This was also a kind of training for himself.
"No problem. We will obey Lu's instructions!" Although Lu Qiujian is the youngest in the laboratory, the ability shown by Lu Qiujian in the previous stage of work has completely impressed them. For Xu Fu,
They had no objection to Professor Te's arrangement at all.
"Then let's get started!" After Professor Schuft walked out, Lu Qiujian began to take over the command of the laboratory, dividing the work into several links and assigning them to Karl, Dietrich and others.
Half an hour later, Professor Schuft returned to the laboratory with a large team of people. A group of young teenagers excitedly looked at the various equipment in the laboratory and their seniors; Lu Qiujian especially received the most attention, and he understood that
Rui's hearing could hear the words "Bayern", "Free Fighting" and other words coming from the mouths of the group of teenagers from time to time.
Lu Qiujian had just made arrangements for their work. Karl and others stood up and briefly asked about their basic situation, then divided into several groups, and then each led a group to start basic training before work.
This situation is happening simultaneously in research institutes all over the world. From the United States to Neon, from China to France, from Italy to England, famous laboratories have become busy.
When four massive detectors, including atlas and cms, come to work with 10 times greater accuracy than any previous tool, mountains of data will be produced. This kind of computer power is necessary if scientists are to find what they want.
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These detectors are like a huge digital camera with 150 million pixels and can take 600 million shots per second. They record every detail of the crash test and then transmit it to Cern's computing grid center; precise
The filter will filter out all useless data and leave only the most interesting data. However, 15 petabytes (each petabyte equals 1024 terabytes) of data still need to be analyzed every year, which is enough to fill 2 million DVDs.
Then the task of 150 cooperative units distributed around the world is to analyze the huge data that can fill 2 million DVDs; ahem, if the data in these DVDs is compared to a favorite movie, an otaku can get it in ten seconds
After entering one card, it will take a day even if he doesn't eat, drink, masturbate, sleep or go to the bathroom.
Therefore, although the Cern experiment has ended, it will still take a long time to know whether the Higgs boson was produced in this experiment; however, with the new method provided by Lu Qiujian, this time has been shortened than the original
The plan was shortened a lot.
If the LHC crash test is colorful and exciting, then the data analysis is boring. This is the same as other scientific experiments. The excitement lasts only a moment. More often, the staff need to calm down and go through the boring tasks.
Discover wonderful things through the process.
It can be said that there was no Internet invented by Boners-Lee. These tasks are not so easy to carry out; it is precisely with today's developed network and increasingly updated computer technology, coupled with the completion of the LHC, that high-energy physics has ushered in a new spring.
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If there is no Internet, then even if the LHC is built and the collision experiment is completed, the next data analysis work will either gather scientists from all over the world to Cern for data analysis; or the data will be transported to collaborations around the world in various ways.
Unit, if something unexpected happens on the way and the data is lost, it will cost you your life!
After the data analysis is completed, it will be summarized to CRN. If CRN finds any errors or omissions in the data analysis, it will have to be sent back to the processing unit of the data. In this way, a lot of precious time will be wasted on the road! Not to mention transporting the data.
Incurred huge expenses!
Cern's research promotes the development of science and technology, and the development of science and technology provides more efficient tools for Cern's research work. This is a virtuous circle.
David Colin, a scientist at Imperial College London, said of the LHC Computing Grid Hub, “The grid is the third generation of the Internet, but unlike the Internet, you share computer capabilities, not files.
Without this infrastructure, LHC experiments would not be possible. This is why particle physicists value this computational grid hub so highly."
Now, more than 150 cooperating units around the world are conducting data analysis for this collision experiment through this grid center. They are busy day and night in order to find some information before other cooperating units.
Something surprising! (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!