Trinity scientists wire up to Grid

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Wednesday September 10 2008

SCIENTISTS from Trinity College will play a big part in the Large Hadron Collider experiment in Geneva, which begins today.

In a bid to help analyse all the data from the experiment, a system of hundreds of linked computers, known as the Grid, was created. Trinity scientists did their bit by engineering the Grid-Ireland computer room, formed of 768 processors and 130 terabytes of hard disk space.

Deputy manager Stephen Childs said the Trinity scientists were "gaining valuable experience with grid technology" which could be passed on to Irish researchers.

Trinity's computer, which has more memory than 200,000 CDs, will be used to store information from two experiments called ATLAS and LHCb. "Although nothing else operates on the same scale as the Collider, the technology being developed will provide a framework for online collaborative experiments of all kinds," Dr Childs added.

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