August 8, 2006
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Building Global Data Sharing and Collaboration Networks - High-performance networking for the ATLAS experiment
Michael Joyce
How do you build a network to support nearly 2,000 physicists from sites all over the globe? That was the question Shawn McKee, Ph.D. faced. As lead on the University of Michigan's computing infrastructure efforts for the ATLAS experiment from CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire), he and his colleagues are coming together to answer questions such as, "Why do particles have mass?" and "Do super-symmetrical particles exist?"
The ATLAS project, one of the largest collaborations in physics, is a particle physics experiment that will utilize the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a particle accelerator 27 kilometers in circumference (approximately 8.5 kilometers in diameter) that is currently being constructed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. Upon its completion in 2007, the LHC will support several experiments, including ATLAS.
For the complete article, please see http://www.scientificcomputing.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=030&ACCT=3000000100&ISSUE=0606&RELTYPE=pr&origreltype=fe&PRODCODE=00000000&PRODLETT=j
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