Talk:Large Hadron Collider/Archive 1

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- Texture 17:09, 3 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Detecting very small particles
-Decent stuff but they will need fast computers to test for such particles. -anon1
 * Obvioulsy, which is the reason why the CERN is developing distributed computing systems, "The Grid" Rama 16:57, 13 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Nowadays you build a bunch of custom hardware to pick out the interesting events, which get stored. The computers are for "off-line" analysis and storage; they do have to be fast, but the idea is to get the real time-sensitive detection stuff done in hardware rather than software. - mako 00:36, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, it's done in hardware up to a certain point, but the decisions on the order of 1 second are still done with processor farms. -- SCZenz 06:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)