CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access | Planet Genius

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Summary:

"The data itself is from 2011, much of it from protons colliding at 7 TeV (teraelectronvolts, you know) and producing those wonderful fountains of rare particles we all love to fail to understand. All told, it’s about half the total data collected by the CMS detector, and makes up about 2.5 inverse femtobarns. But who’s counting?

There’s both the raw data from the detectors (so you can verify the results) and also 'derived' datasets that are more easy to work with — and don’t worry, CERN is providing the tools to do so, as well. There’s a whole CERN Linux environment ready for booting up in a virtual machine, and a bunch of scripts and apps (some are on GitHub, too)."

Link:

http://planetgeniusmagazine.com/technology/cern-releases-300tb-of-large-hadron-collider-data-into-open-access/

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Date tagged:

12/18/2016, 23:12

Date published:

12/18/2016, 18:12