Chapter 246: Global Collaboration
The data generated by the LHC experiment will be completed by the global partners, of course, the strong, advanced equipment, sufficient manpower of the cooperative units will undertake a larger share of the work, those who are weak, the equipment is old, the manpower is insufficient or the quality of the personnel is average, the share will naturally be less.
As for the number of people and the number of these cooperative units, as an example, you can go to the Internet to find CERN papers, and then you will find that the list of authors of some papers is outrageously long, if I translate the list of authors and the list of institutions, then the book is guaranteed to update 4,000 words per day!
And not everyone involved in the experiment is qualified to sign the paper, you have to have a certain status in the experimental group, so behind these outrageous lists, there are far more grassroots researchers than that, and the cost of high-energy physics experiments can be seen.
However, because of the addition of Lu Qiujian, the share of tasks undertaken by Professor Xufut has increased a lot compared with the last time, and the growth of tasks has proved that the status of his laboratory in the international high-energy physics community has risen, so despite the increased workload, Professor Xufut is still very happy.
"You have worked hard during this time, I will apply to the school to transfer some interns and logistics personnel to help!" Of course, the core work can only be done by Lu Qiujian, Dietrich, Ludwig, Carl and Frederick, etc., and finding interns to come over can only relieve them of the most basic manual work; as for the logistics personnel, their main job is to help these people make tea, make coffee, clean, Ordering takeout, etc., frees them from daily chores so that they can devote themselves to data analysis.
"The day-to-day work is arranged and managed by Lu, and then Lu summarizes the results of each stage to me!" Professor Xu Fu delegated the management to Lu Qiujian, of course, in the use of new methods, I am afraid that there is no better person in the world than him.
"Okay!" Lu Qiujian did not give in, this is also a kind of exercise for himself.
"No problem. We will obey Lu's orders!" Although Lu Qiujian was the youngest in the laboratory, they had been completely impressed by the ability shown by Lu Qiujian in the previous stage of work, and they had no opinion at all on Professor Xufut's arrangement.
"Then let's get started!" After saying that, Professor Schiff walked out, and Lu Qiujian began to take over the command of the laboratory, dividing the work into several parts and assigning it to Karl, Dietrich, and others.
Half an hour later, Professor Schiff returned to the laboratory with a large group of people, and a group of young teenagers excitedly looked at the various equipment in the laboratory and their seniors;
For their work, Lu Qiujian had already arranged it just now, Carl and the others stood up one after another, briefly inquired about their basic situation, and then divided into several groups, and then led a group to start the basic training before work.
This is happening at the same time in research institutes around the world. From rice to neon, from China to France, from Italy to England, famous laboratories have begun to get busy.
When 4 huge detectors such as ATLAS and CMS start working with 10 times more accuracy than any previous tool, a mountain of data will be generated. This computing power is necessary if scientists are to find what they are looking for.
Like a giant 150 million pixel digital camera with 600 million shots per second, these detectors record every detail of the crash test and send it to the center of CERN's computational grid, where sophisticated filters filter out all useless data and leave only the most interesting data. However, 15 petabytes (each petabyte equals 1,024 terabytes) of data still need to be analyzed each year, which is enough to fill 2 million DVDs.
Then the task of the 150 partners around the world is to analyze the huge data that could fill 2 million DVDs, and if you compare the data in these DVDs to some kind of movie that you like to see, an otaku can fast-forward one in ten seconds. Then even if he doesn't eat, drink, sleep, or go to the bathroom, it will take 231 days.
Therefore, although the CERN experiment has ended, it will take a long time to know whether the experiment has produced the Higgs boson, but with the new method provided by Lu Qiujian, this time has been much shorter than originally planned.
If the LHC's crash test is colorful and exciting. Then data analysis is boring, this is the same as other scientific experiments, wonderful is only a moment, more often the staff need to calm down and find wonderful things through what boring process.
It can be said that there is no Internet invented by Bonas Lee. These tasks are not so easy to carry out, and it is precisely with today's developed networks and increasingly updated computer technology, coupled with the completion of the LHC, that high-energy physics has ushered in a new spring.
If there is no internet. Even if the LHC is built and the collision experiment is completed, the next data analysis work will either bring scientists from all over the world to CERN for data analysis, or transport the data to partners around the world in various ways.
After the data analysis is completed, it will be summarized to CERN, and if CERN finds any errors or omissions in the data analysis, it will have to return to the processing unit of the data, so that a lot of valuable time is wasted on the road! Not to mention the huge expenses caused by transporting the data!
CERN's research drives the development of science and technology, which in turn provides more efficient tools for CERN's research work, which is a virtuous circle.
David Colin, a scientist at Imperial College London, said of the LHC Computing Grid Center, "The grid is the third generation of the Internet, but unlike the Internet, you share the power of the computer, not the files. Without this infrastructure, LHC experiments would not have been possible. That's why particle physicists attach so much importance to this computational grid center. ”
Now, more than 150 partners around the world are working on the data analysis of this collision experiment through this grid hub center, and they are busy working day and night to find something surprising before the other partners! )