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One of the Largest Computing Grids has been launched for the LHC which is capable of streaming the equivalent of 3 million DVD’s in a year.

Its a Worldwide computing Grid for the Large Hadron collider which can draw upto processing power from about 100,000 processors.

The Comupting grid will allow the Scientists from all over the world to process the 15 petabytes of data which will be generated by the LHC every year.

Many scientists have spent years on building the grid. The grid also has a dedicated10 Gbps connection to 11 main sites, which include main universities and laboratories in the network. The high bandwidth grid computing will change the way research is carried out.

Robert Aymar, Director General of Cern said that “About half the world’s scientists will be looking at this data. It is a true world effort.” He also said that this kind of data processing will change the rate of scientific discovery.

The grid has also processed around 44 million computing tasks in 2007 for the launch of the particle accelerator and then around 65 million computing jobs in 2008 so far.

Cern has spent around €100m n the Grid.

The grid will start it complete might in the spring of 2009 when the LHC starts again. The particle accelerator is not running right now, after a fault stopped its operation.

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The large Hadron Collider near Geneva will be non-functional for two months as stated by European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern).

Today’s biggest science experiment The Hadron Collider had to be temporarily stopped because of a magnet failure. The damage was worse than what was anticipated. The LHC is created to smash protons together at huge speeds which would shed light on the fundamentals of physics.

This damage happened on Friday. A failure known as a quench, is failure to LHC`s super cooled magnet. The magnets got heated to approximately 100 degree centigrade. The reason as stated by the concerned people was because of tonne of liquid helium leaked into the tunnel.

Cern spokesman James Gillies stated on Saturday that the sector of the LHC that is damaged will have to me warmed above the operating temperature of near absolute zero in order to make the repairs and then cooled down. The spokesmen also say that there is no danger to the public. Though a complete investigation is yet going on but the reason as it seems now is a faulty electrical connection between two of the magnets which caused its melting and resulted into this mechanical fault.

The experiment initiated its First step of firing its first beams around the accelerator 27 km underground ring around a week ago. The next step is to collide those beams head on. But this fault has brought a set back for around two months. The online logbook recorded this quench in sector 3-4 of the accelerator, which lies between Alice and CMS detectors. It stated that helium had leaked into the tunnel and the vacuum condition was lost. In order to allow steering of particle beams around the circuit, the superconducting magnets in LHC must be supercooled to 1.9 Kelvin above absolute zero.

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The hackers wont even spare the People who are working to help us find how we came into existance. They hacked into part of the computer system of the Large Hardon Collider (LHC).

The spokesan of Cern said that the hackers put up a message on the Facility’s Website.

No harm done but this shows that Cern has out all the Money in the Experiment and no money in the Security for the LHC.

The target for the hackers who call themselves “Greek Security Team” was the computer network of the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment (CMS), a huge detector that analyses data from the particle accelerator.

Now what LHC is trying to do is known almost to everyone by now “The LHC is attempting to recreate the conditions just after the Big Bang, in which the universe was created.”

The CMS website displayed a page with a mocking message, in Greek, which included the line: “We are 2600 – don’t mess with us”.

Now the webpage www.cmsmon.cern.ch is down.

Though the good part is that the computer hacked was not connected to the accelerator itself.

The Cern spokesman James Gillies said “It seems it was not a malicious hack and it was quickly detected and corrected but this sort of thing keeps you on your toes”.

Mr Gillies said the LHC had a general access network and a more restricted access network which controls the sensitive systems.

Though Cern did accept the lack of security.

The number 2600 is often used by the hacking community. It is believed to have originated in the US in the 1960s with the discovery that a tone of 2600Hz played down the line could be used to access restricted parts of the national telephone system.

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