Bed, Breakfast and a Particle Accelerator
Non-geeks stop reading NOW. It turns out that our hotel on the border of France and Switzerland is also next door to what is, arguably, the biggest, meanest, most expensive piece of scientific equipment on the planet: the CERN Large Hadron Collider. That big thing behind me is NOT the LHC, it’s just a sculpture, the real thing is burried 100m underground, runs underneath a number of towns and straddles both Switzerland and France and has a circumference of 26km. My main reason for visiting is really just symbolic, it’s also home to some of the most significant computing power on the planet and is a Mecca for an amazing thing, simply called The Grid.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:43 am
yeah, i blogged about this a few months back… man we are geeks… eeek!
I hope you had your torrents going full-bull when you plugged into the grid