CERN, the Big Bang and Impact On the IT Industry

whencanistop writes "ComputerWeekly have put together a nice short guide (with lots of links) of what is going on at CERN. They've got a nice slant though on what this big bang experiment is going to mean for the IT Industry. Interesting slant on the world's largest grid and the database clustering technology that they are using. They have also picked up on the amusing rap video by CERN's scientists that has been wandering around YouTube."

We need more evil scientists

[David Gerard]

Mad scientists are way too nice and sweet-natured these days. We need more evil geniuses [today.com]. Who'll do things like run the Large Hardon Collider on Vista [today.com].

(Okay, that's too evil. They can run it on Google Chrome.)

Terrabytes

[pablomme]

a massive Linux-based storage system supplying many terrabytes of disk storage

Clearly the effect of being buried 100m underground.

geek viagra

[einer]

10 Gigabit Wan

I'll be in my bunk

If CERN fails

[eebra82]

Look at it this way: if they fail to find the God particle, at least they can make a really affordable subway system.

LHC webcam

[Stroot]

LHC webcam: http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html [cyriak.co.uk]

Re:Sys Admin at CERN

[nomadic]

And sysadminning for scientists is a goddamn nightmare. I'd just like you to imagine expert Fortran programmers who can't actually work a computer. And are way smarter than you in every way except ones that involve communicating with humans.

Wow, when a sysadmin complains about someone else being bad at communicating with humans, that's saying something.

Re:If CERN fails

[suggsjc]

I for one would not want to ride on the "Large Subway Collider"!

Re:Sys Admin at CERN

[Anonymous Coward]

You should buy more super computer clusters.

Disclaimer: I may work for a company who already built some of the clusters at CERN...

Re:We need more evil scientists

[GweeDo]

Do you want to destroy the world?
-ACCEPT- -DENY-

Re:Excellent rap!

[gardyloo]

I would almost risk having them hate science, as long as they also can't stand rap music.

Re:We need more evil scientists

[David Gerard]

My large hardon collider [today.com] pushes large, energised hardons through a ring repeatedly, faster and faster, as smoothly and tightly as possible, until they clash and spray matter in all directions.

... What?

Re:We need more evil scientists

[X0563511]

Yes, because stereotyping a whole website's pool of users is 100% accurate. Asshole, I happen to have a sense of humor, cleanse regularly, and hell I even go outside and do things with non-nerds!

Re:What it means to IT.

[David Gerard]

You'll destroy the world of IT journalism with an attitude like that!

cnet.com: "Nothing happened today."
zdnet.com: "Nope, nothing here either."
networkweek: "It's Patch Tuesday ... no, we don't care either."
theregister.co.uk: "Tits! Beer! Football!"

Re:We need more evil scientists

[exley]

man, can we ever escape the microsoft bash? it's stale. really stale. i guess it sucks not to have an imagination.

I'm with ya, AC. Most of the MS jokes are lame indeed, but unfortunately that nonsense is here to stay because there are far too many people here who get a huge hadron when they bash MS.

Re:We need more evil scientists

[Drantin]

Traitor!

Re:Best source for evil scientist news

[dogdick]

I was listening to a radio show where they were interviewing one of the scientists from LHC and they asked about destroying the world. The host asked something to the effect of "what could go wrong that would end up destroying the world?" The scientist responded with, "nothing would go wrong. It's an experiment, that would just be the outcome."

Im curious what its like to have to walk around with balls that huge everyday.