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from the issue of September 8, 2005
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$2 million grant puts UNL into international physics experiment
UNL scientists and facilities are playing a key role in one of the world's largest physics experiments, and in August received a five-year, $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to support those efforts.
The experiment is the international particle-physics project known as the Compact Muon Solenoid, or CMS. The experiment will be conducted at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator, at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva, Switzerland. Scheduled to begin in 2007, the experiment will explore the frontiers of energy, matter, space and time.
Although, the experiment will be conducted in Switzerland, it will create so much data that dozens of supercomputers crunching 24/7 will take years to analyze all the information. A "tiered" hierarchy of computing facilities is being created. UNL is a member of that hierarchy.
The data collected at CERN will be parceled out to computing facilities around the world in a hierarchical grid. Tier-0 is at CERN; several international labs serve as Tier-1 sites. Subsets of the data will be sent to seven associated Tier-2 sites in the United States, including UNL. Other universities collaborating on CMS will do much of their computing work at Tier-2 sites.
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