<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/155f4000-d9cd-4398-ba5c-731d6ea1757e/BB1AB6FD-3B63-4E81-B2BE-CFC5FDC3B821/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j77nejpj-Zi381ys1btOgChpYbqQD933UEUG0" href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j77nejpj-Zi381ys1btOgChpYbqQD933UEUG0" style="font-size: 11px;">ap.google.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j77nejpj-Zi381ys1btOgChpYbqQD933UEUG0"><H1>Global computer network behind the Big Bang probe</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j77nejpj-Zi381ys1btOgChpYbqQD933UEUG0"><P>GENEVA (AP) — The world's biggest physics experiment, the Large Hadron particle collider that began running Wednesday in a 17-mile tunnel below the French-Swiss border, produces so much data that even the massive computing power at the European Organization for Nuclear Research can't sift through it all.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j77nejpj-Zi381ys1btOgChpYbqQD933UEUG0"><P>So the Geneva-based lab, known by its old French acronym CERN, is sharing that burden among dozens of computing centers around the world. The result is the LHC Grid, a network of 60,000 computers that will analyze what happens when protons are hurled at each other inside the collider.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j77nejpj-Zi381ys1btOgChpYbqQD933UEUG0"><P>Scientists will need the additional computing power to sift through the mountains of data produced when the colliders' four giant detectors — 10 times more accurate than any previous instruments — measure activity at the subatomic level.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BB1AB6FD-3B63-4E81-B2BE-CFC5FDC3B821/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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